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Quotes by Revolutionary
"Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!"
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"I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!"
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"The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals."
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"We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life."
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"I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
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"Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship."
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"I know no way of judging the future but by the past."
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"My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right."
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"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
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"If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity."
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"I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."
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"He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections."
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"In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels."
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"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."
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"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right."
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"It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States."
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"The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion."
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"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it."
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"Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!"
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"But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their efforts may have been - are sure to receive the thanks and blessings of its people."
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"The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier."
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"From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own."
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"While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith."
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"In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue."
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"Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason."
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"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
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"America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society."
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"Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?"
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