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To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited,…

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In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured,…
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured,…
The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which…
Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority…
All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas…
By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I…
The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra.
AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which…
To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

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