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"If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."

"I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken."

"I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went."
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"Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times."


"But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights."


"We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel."


"Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller."


"There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates."


"And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance."


"There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists."


"Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood."
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