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Isabel Paterson

Born

in Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada

January 22, 1886

Died

January 10, 1961

Genre

American Libertarianism, Philosophy, Political

Influences

Lord Acton, Ayn Rand ...more

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Isabel Paterson (January 22, 1886, – January 10, 1961) was a Canadian-American journalist, novelist, political philosopher, and a leading literary critic of her day. Along with Rose Wilder Lane and Ayn Rand, who both acknowledged an intellectual debt to Paterson, she is one of the three founding mothers of American libertarianism. Paterson's best-known work, her 1943 book The God of the Machine, a treatise on political philosophy, economics, and history, reached conclusions and espoused beliefs that many libertarians credit as a foundation of their philosophy. Her biographer Stephen D. Cox (2004) believes Paterson is the "earliest progenitor of libertarianism as we know it today." Ayn Rand wrote in a letter in the 1940s that The God of the ...more

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	The God of the Machine by Isabel Paterson, Stephen Cox (Introduction) 4.05 avg rating — 391 ratings — published 1943 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Vanity really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1934 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Ask the End 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magpie's Nest 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Shadow Riders (1916) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dance Again Mrs Pelican really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If it Prove fair weather liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1940 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[(God of the Machine)] [Author: Isabel Paterson] published on (August, 2005) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.”
― Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine

tags: education, freedom, libertarian, liberty, political, statism, taxes, totalitarianism

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“Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.”
― Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine

tags: good-intentions, humanitarianism, ideology

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“There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.”
― Isabel Paterson

tags: anarchy, compulsory-education, economics, education, evil, extortion, government, libertarian, liberty, philosophy, statism, taxation, taxes, theft, voluntaryism

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