“Freedom is the nature of man; every person is self-controlling and himself responsible for his thoughts, his speech, his acts.”

— Rose Wilder Lane

Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943)

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American journalist 1886–1968

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Source: Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943), p. xii.

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“Every person has his own ideas of the act of praying for God's guidance, tolerance, and mercy to fulfill his duties and responsibilities.”

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“I have chosen for the subject of this lecture Self-culture, or the care which every man owes to himself, to the unfolding and perfecting of his nature.”

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“If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.”

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“Freedom is the absolute right of every human being to seek no other sanction for his actions but his own conscience, to determine these actions solely by his own will, and consequently to owe his first responsibility to himself alone.”

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“Freedom is the nature of man; every person is self-controlling and himself responsible for his thoughts, his speech, his acts.”

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