Isabel Paterson
Isabel Paterson was a Canadian-American libertarian writer and literary critic. Historian Jim Powell has called Paterson one of the three founding mothers of American libertarianism, along with Rose Wilder Lane and Ayn Rand, who both acknowledged an intellectual debt to Paterson. Paterson's best-known work, The God of the Machine (1943), a treatise on political philosophy, economics, and history, reached conclusions and espoused beliefs that many libertarians credit as a foundation of their philosophy.
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- Manitoulin Island
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Trending topics shown first"An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation."
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"Whether it does any good or not, a law enforced must hurt someone."
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1886
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Birth1961
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