"A standing army is a standing menace to…" — Voltairine de Cleyre
"A standing army is a standing menace to liberty."
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23 Quotes by Voltairine de Cleyre
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Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper…
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There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.
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The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today…
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There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
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I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
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No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for…
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Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the…
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Capitalistic Anarchism ? Oh, yes, if you choose to call it so. Names are indifferent to me; I am not…
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Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly…
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If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government;…
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And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown…
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The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his…
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of…
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Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.
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I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
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My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to…
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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