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History is nothing whatever but a record of what living persons have done in the past.

— Rose Wilder Lane Give Me Liberty (1936)

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The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.

Anarchy is absence of earthly Authority over human beings, by definition and etymology; so I am an anarchist.

The Lady and The Tycoon: Letters of Rose Wilder Lane and Jasper Crane (1973)

Men are alive on this earth, only because the imperative human desire is to attack the enemies of human life.

Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943)

To believe that any action based on an ignorance of fact can possibly succeed, is to abandon the use of reason.

Give Me Liberty (1936)

The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

Give Me Liberty (1936)

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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