Quote #38

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

More from Edward Abbey

  1. No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
  2. Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the ma…
  3. The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
  4. Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
  5. Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
  6. In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
  7. Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
  8. The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.

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