Rose Wilder Lane - Self Quotes

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

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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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One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self.... All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.

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Freedom is the nature of man; every person is self-controlling and himself responsible for his thoughts, his speech, his acts.

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I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man... It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentangle one's self, never quite having the ruthlessness to stike at the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go — that's the horrible thing.

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That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.

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