I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom. Like all Americans, I took for granted the individual l… - Rose Wilder Lane

To believe that any action based on an ignorance of fact can possibly succeed, is to abandon the use of reason.

Resisting step by step, I was finally compelled to admit to my Italian friends that I had seen the spirit of Italy revive under Mussolini. And it seemed to me that this revival was based on a separation of individual liberty from the industrial revolution whose cause and source is individual liberty. I said that in Italy, as in Russia, an essentially medieval, planned and controlled economic order was taking over the fruits of the industrial revolution while destroying its root, the freedom of the individual.

It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.