The picture of the economic revolution as the final step to freedom was false as soon as I asked myself that question. For, in actual fact, The State… - Rose Wilder Lane

As to anarchy, you can find me with Woodrow Wilson (that lying treacherous scoundrel who began this World War: truly a ‘Platonic ‘idealist,’ he was) who said words to the effect that increase of freedom is decrease of Government. The difference between W.W. and me is that I mean what I say. I am not wildeyed and whiskered and I do not contemplate throwing a home-made bomb at Mr. Kennedy but I am FOR any and every way of diminishing the size, the activity, the extent of Government per se, and all respect for Government, to the eventual end of eliminating Government totally. Anarchy is absence of earthly Authority over human beings, by definition and etymology; so I am an anarchist.

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.

Writing fiction is … an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.