3 Isabel Paterson Quotes on Economy

Isabel Paterson quotes on economy

1. An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

4. These are not sentimental considerations; they constitute the mechanism of productioon and therefore of power. Personal liberty is the pre-condition of the release of energy. Private property is the inductor which initiates the flow. Real money is the transmission line; and the payment of debts comprises half the circuit. An empire is merely a long circuit energy-system. The possibility of a short circuit, ensuing leakage and breakdown or explosion, occurs in the hook-up of political organization to the productive processes. This is not a figure os speech or analogy, but a specific physical description of what happens.

9. The most dimwitted attempt at argument we've heard in this mortal world is the supposed retort to any advocate of freedom: 'Do you mean to be free to starve?' We mean, do you think you can't starve with your hands tied?