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"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."
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"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."

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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

"Help yourself with the state! It's on democracy!"
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"I'm too much old-timer to be rude to a woman no matter what - they have so much of what we have none of."


"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."


"The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian."


"He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state's means of exchange."


"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."


"Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers."


"God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good-and is no sillier than any other theology."
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