Rose Wilder Lane - Human Quotes

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

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This is the nature of human energy; individuals generate it, and control it. Each person is self-controlling, and therefore responsible for his acts. Every human being, by his nature, is free. -xii.

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Two deep human desires were at war … the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for death, and the opposing hunger for movement, change, instability and risk, which are life. Men came from the east and built these American towns because they wished to go no farther, and the towns they built were shaped by the urge to go onward.

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In our ignorance, we could not see that the Kaiser's Germany and the Communist International were merely two aspects of the Old World's reaction against the new, the American principle of individual liberty and human rights.

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