Isabel Paterson

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

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

“There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.”

“The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.”

“As the several items can be exchanged, they must be equal; but in what terms? Not in pounds, yards, or hours; they are equal in value. Then what is wanted is a unit of value to reckon by.”

“No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.”