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- All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the…
- History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.
- History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order…
- Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the…
- A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it…
- The Forgotten Man... delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school... but he…
- We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A…
- It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes,…
- All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they might win the…
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