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Quotes by Revolutionary
"We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
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"The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks."
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"Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others."
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"Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development."
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"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."
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"I've never heard of any president being so close to his people."
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"The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence."
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"Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction."
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"Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property."
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"While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect."
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"Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will."
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"Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa."
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"England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases."
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"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can."
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"Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws."
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"Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being."
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"There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser."
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"We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight."
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"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
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"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
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"However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel."
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"A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him."
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"What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength."
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"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience."
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"Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah."
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"In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare."
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"I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation."
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"Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America."
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"I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion."
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
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"To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt."
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"I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge."
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"You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo."
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"As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing."
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"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying."
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"'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to."
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"Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it."
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"You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you."
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"If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation."
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"The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth."
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"The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies."
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"The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed."
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"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances."
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"At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned."
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"When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties."
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"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
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"It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists."
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