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There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.
Isabel Paterson
No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
Isabel Paterson
The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.
Isabel Paterson
The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.
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.
Isabel Paterson
As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.
Isabel Paterson
But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the methods they approve, why do they still fraternize with the murderers and support the measures? Because they have been told that the lingering death of the three millions might ultimately benefit a greater number. The argument applies equally well to cannibalism.
Isabel Paterson
An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.
Isabel Paterson
The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.
Isabel Paterson
As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.
Isabel Paterson
But in reason if one man has no right to command all other men--the expedient of despotism--neither has he any right to command even one other man; nor yet have ten men, or a million, the right to command even one other man, for ten times nothing is nothing, and a million times nothing is nothing.
Isabel Paterson
More and more of the flow was diverted from production into the political mechanism. Whatever elements in motion compose a stream of energy, enough must go through to complete the circuit and renew production. Water running in an aqueduct to turn a millwheel is a stream of energy; or electricity going through insulated wires; or goods in process from raw materials to finished product and conveyed by a system of transport. If the water channel is pierced with many small openings en route; or electricity taken off by more and more outlets; or the goods expropiated piecemeal at each stage of the process, finally not enough will go through for maintenance of the system. In the energy system comprised in an exchange of goods, the producers and processors have to get back enough to enable them to keep on producing and working up the raw materials and to provide transport...
Isabel Paterson
What the past shows, by overwhelming evidence, is that the imponderables outweigh every material article in the scales of human endeavor.
Isabel Paterson
In human affairs, all that endures is what men think.
Isabel Paterson
Whether it does any good or not, a law enforced must hurt someone.
Isabel Paterson
When the word leader, or leadership, returns to current use, it connotes a relapse into barbarism. For a civilized people, it is the most ominous word in any language.
Isabel Paterson