Rose Wilder Lane

Articles

07/04/2007 Mises Daily Rose Wilder Lane

Madison stated the historic fact: in democracy there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party. There is no protection for liberty. Hence it is, that democracies always destroy personal security (the Gestapo, the concentration camps) and the rights of property (what rights of property ownership are there in Europe, now?) and are as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.

What Was Wrong With the Old World

10/20/2006 Mises Daily Rose Wilder Lane

Every human being, by his nature, is free; he controls himself. But in the Old World, men believe that some Authority controls them. They cannot make their energy work by any such belief, because the belief is false.

Publications

Introduction to Robert LeFevre’s The Nature of Man and His Government

11/17/1959 Rose Wilder Lane

Introduction to Robert LeFevre’s The Nature of Man and His Government, by Rose Wilder Lane This little book is important because it is revolutionary thinking. To appreciate its value correctly, we should remember the World Revolution’s career so far

The Discovery of Freedom

07/10/1943 Rose Wilder Lane

With new forewords by Roger Lea MacBride and Hans F. Sennholz What an American original was Rose Wilder Lane! What a treasure! She lived from 1886 until 1968, the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and widely considered a silent collaborator on the

Give Me Liberty

06/07/1954 Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane in her youth supported the Russian Revolution, but a trip to Russia quickly dispelled her illusions. She realized that the mass politics of socialism necessarily suppressed individual freedom. America was founded on a different

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