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• War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
• War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
• The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.
• The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his…
• War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not…
• Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.
• Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a…
• Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you just as the highwayman’s gun. You must live … You…
• What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you…
• Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against…
• When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do…
• ...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in…

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