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No jailer can compel any prisoner to speak or act against that prisoner's will, but chains can prevent his acting, and a gag can prevent his speaking.

— 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.

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

Give Me Liberty (1936)

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.

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