Isabel Paterson

Journalist

1886-01-22

Quotes by Isabel Paterson

• A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

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

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• The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God.

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

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