Quote #40

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

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  1. Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the ma…
  2. In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
  3. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
  4. The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.
  5. No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
  6. Freedom begins between the ears.
  7. The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
  8. The 'Terror' of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

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