Josiah Warren Quotes
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Liberty is the sovereignty of the individual.
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Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him, that he is…
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Public influence is the real government of the world.
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Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the only…
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It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.
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Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.
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I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.
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It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.
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It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all…
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This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and…
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The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those…
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It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of…
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Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of…
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The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which…
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Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the only…
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