If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.
Isabel PatersonAs such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.
Isabel PatersonThe philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.
Isabel PatersonEvery politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
Isabel Paterson