What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government. - Rose Wilder Lane

Men are alive on this earth, only because the imperative human desire is to attack the enemies of human life.

That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.

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.