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• Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
• May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the…
• Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
• A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
• Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
• Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
• Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats…
• One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
• Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
• Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to…
• Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by…
• The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home…

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