63 Quotes by Rose Wilder Lane

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

You must take into account the actual distinction between truth and fact. It is beyond all human power to tell all the facts. Your whole lifetime spent at nothing else would not tell all the facts of one morning in your life, just any ordinary morning when you get up, dress, get breakfast and wash the dishes. Facts are infinite in number. The truth is a meaning underlying them; you tell the truth by selecting the facts to illustrate it.

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.