63 Quotes by Rose Wilder Lane

I so much like real things – the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like – what shall I say? – the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself.

I’m not “filled with my art”. I ain’t got no art. I’ve got only a kind of craftsman’s skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

Indeed, nothing but smuggling kept the poor from starving to death under that Government monopoly, benevolently planned for their good.

The fact is that nothing but human energy working productively can produce any of the necessities of human life, any human living conditions.

A “planned economy” destroys Government because when men use force in an attempt to control productive energies, they have no means of knowing real costs, and these costs automatically increase at an increasing rate until the people can no longer pay them.

In communism, the men who establish the commune plan its economy.

Being absolute, and maintained by police force, a Government monopoly need not please its customers.

Yet twenty-two hundred years ago, there were scientists. Before Rome was an outlaw’s camp in the far west, Aristotle was saying, “If a man grasps truths that can not be other than they are, in the way in which he grasps the definitions through which demonstrations take place, he will not have opinion, but knowledge.

So long as any large group of persons, anywhere on this earth, believe the ancient superstition that some Authority is responsible for their welfare, they will set up some image of that Authority and try to obey it. And the result will be poverty and war.