8 Quotes & Sayings By Isabel Paterson

Isabel Paterson was a journalist and author best known for her historical fiction. Born in 1853, Isabel Paterson grew up in New York City and moved to California in 1869. She later worked as a reporter for the San Francisco Call and was a contributing editor for McClure's Magazine. In addition to writing fiction, Paterson also contributed articles to newspapers and magazines, including The Nation.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of...
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A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. Isabel Paterson
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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. Isabel Paterson
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The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly. Isabel Paterson
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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. Isabel Paterson
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In arguing against free enterprise capitalism, the collectivist always adopts the false assumption of a fixed number of jobs in that system. Conversely, in arguing for collectivism, he always assumes that there will be as many jobs as there are workers. The government will make the jobs. Isabel Paterson
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Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status. Isabel Paterson
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Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit. Isabel Paterson