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Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and read more
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties read more
No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties or subsidies, for the monetary and banking laws, for the state of law in regard to corporate privileges and immunities, for the actual status of property rights, for agricultural or for labor policies, until he had gone behind the general claims and the abstract justifications and had identified the specifically interested groups which promoted the specific law.
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are read more
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
"What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic read more
"What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these read more
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
