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Rose Wilder Lane
Author/Libertarian Pioneer
Late Luminaries & Iconoclasts
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been too 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 diseases and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that The State must give it to him. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour and he will learn how much security there is. Let him get out on the front lines. Let him bring one slow freight through a snowstorm in the Rockies. Let him drive one rivet to hold his apartment roof over his head. Let him keep his own electric light burning through one quiet cozy winter evening when the mist is freezing to the wires. Let him make, from seed to table, just one slice of bread, and we will hear no more about the human right to security.
Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968) was an American writer, journalist, and political thinker who became one of the founding figures of modern American libertarianism. After early fame as a biographer and collaborator on the "Little House" books with her mother Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lane underwent a philosophical transformation during the 1930s and 1940s. Her 1943 book The Discovery of Freedom made a powerful case for individual liberty, voluntary action, and personal responsibility, opposing both socialism and government intervention. A passionate critic of the New Deal and centralized power, Lane’s writings inspired a generation of liberty-minded thinkers and helped shape the ideological foundation of the modern libertarian movement.
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