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"There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered."
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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

"The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference."

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"The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation."

"It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation."

"Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force."

"Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?"

"How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed."

"The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations."

"We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do."
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