8 Quotes & Sayings By Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane was born in Rochester, New York, the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House books. She graduated from Vassar College in 1929 and then attended Columbia University's Teachers College before going into private practice as a school teacher. In 1932, she married Richard Lane, who became a leading producer of motion pictures. Lane wrote her best-selling memoirs from 1940 to 1944, The Discovery of Freedom (1940) and The Discovery of Childhood (1942) Read more

In 1942 she co-founded the American Association for the Extension of University Education to help develop public school systems in the United States and abroad. Lane died in 1961.

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Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god– Society, The State, The Government, The Commune–must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is. . Rose Wilder Lane
It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political...
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It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy. Rose Wilder Lane
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Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand. Rose Wilder Lane
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No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men. Rose Wilder Lane
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You must take into account the actual distinction between truth and fact. It is beyond all human power to tell all the facts. Your whole lifetime spent at nothing else would not tell all the facts of one morning in your life, just any ordinary morning when you get up, dress, get breakfast and wash the dishes. Facts are infinite in number. The truth is a meaning underlying them; you tell the truth by selecting the facts to illustrate it. Rose Wilder Lane
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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. Rose Wilder Lane
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I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom. Rose Wilder Lane