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• Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his…
• If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war…
• If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject...
• If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that…
• Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know…
• It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view…
• We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
• All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they…
• The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.
• History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.
• The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a…
• History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the…

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