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“He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.”

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The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

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It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.

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That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of…

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I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the…

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What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

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