No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

If It Prove Fair Weather
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Paterson and Rand promoted each other's books and conducted an extensive correspondence over the years in which they often touched on religion and philosophy.

Isabel Paterson (January 22 1886 – January 10 1961) was a Canadian-American journalist novelist political philosopher and a leading literary critic of her day. Her biographer Stephen D. 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.