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Isabel Paterson quotes: No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

Isabel Paterson quotes: As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

Isabel Paterson quotes: An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

Isabel Paterson quotes: People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

Isabel Paterson quotes: If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.

If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.

Isabel Paterson quotes: Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

Isabel Paterson quotes: The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

Isabel Paterson quotes: The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

Isabel Paterson quotes: Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.

Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.

Isabel Paterson quotes: The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

Isabel Paterson quotes: The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

Isabel Paterson quotes: A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

Isabel Paterson quotes: Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

Isabel Paterson quotes: An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

Isabel Paterson quotes: Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

Isabel Paterson quotes: If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

Isabel Paterson quotes: The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

Isabel Paterson quotes: The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

Isabel Paterson quotes: One genius is about all a house will hold.

One genius is about all a house will hold.

Isabel Paterson quotes: It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.

It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.

Isabel Paterson quotes: Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

Isabel Paterson quotes: Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

Isabel Paterson quotes: Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.

Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.

Isabel Paterson quotes: The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it.

The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it.