52 Quotes by Isabel Paterson

Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

One genius is about all a house will hold.

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

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

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.

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

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

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

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