Rose Wilder Lane Quotes

A collection of quotes by Rose Wilder Lane.

Rose Wilder Lane was an American journalist, travel writer, and novelist, born on December 5, 1886. She is best known as the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the beloved Little House on the Prairie series. Lane was an accomplished writer in her own right and worked as a journalist for various publications, including The Rocky Mountain News. She also co-wrote a series of fictionalized biographies with her mother. Lane played a key role in the libertarian movement in the United States and is often considered one of the founders of American libertarianism. She passed away on October 30, 1968.

There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lone

There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.

Rose Wilder Lane

Life Truth Society Nations Countrylife

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has

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

Security

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

Rose Wilder Lane

Responsibility

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doo

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Rose Wilder Lane

Happiness

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, becaus

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

Rose Wilder Lane

Freedom