Quotes by Isabel Paterson

Isabel Paterson

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

Education

Historical

Liberty

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

Ideas

Mountain

Moving

An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

Army

Energy

Productive Life

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

Freak

Law

Stand Alone

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

Being The Best

Government

Oppression

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.

Numbers

People

Years

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

Children

School

Teaching

Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

Educational

Octopus

Political

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

Danger

Might

Views

If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

Betrayal

Race

Would Be

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Being The Best

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Conservative

Craving

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Direct Action

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Doe

Done

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Education

Educational

Energy

Enough

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Fine

Forever

Freak

Genius

Giving

Government

Half

Historical

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Humanitarian

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Law

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Quotes by Isabel Paterson

Isabel Paterson

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

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

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