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The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do,…
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The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the…
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Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.
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If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our…
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And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights…
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How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of…
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Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that…
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How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act…
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If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization,…
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I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
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We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men,…
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It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do,…
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To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
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The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did…
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Gold were as good as twenty orators.
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I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all…
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It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as…
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from…
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