52 Quotes by Isabel Paterson

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

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

Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to allow a margin for exchange, and cost of transport, over a considerable distance. Money represents a storage battery when idle, and a generalized mode of the conversion of energy when it is in motion, with a function of equating time and space.

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

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

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

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

Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. One must give everything.

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.