The State

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by Rebecca EdelsohnFirst Woman to Attempt a Hunge...

from The Anarchist Response to War and Labor Violence in 1914

...free speech in America means that you may say only the things that are agreeable to the government. (From: Section 4: Hunger Striking in America, Mother Eart....)

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by Adam FergusonScottish Philosopher, Historia...

from An Essay on the History of Civil Society

Every dispute of a free people, in the opinion of such politicians, amounts to disorder, and a breach of the national peace. What heart-burnings? What delay to affairs? What want of secrecy and dispatch? What defect of police? Men of superior genius sometimes seem to imagine, that the vulgar have no title to act, or to think. (From: Part 5, Section III..)

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by George OrwellEnglish Novelist, Essayist, Jo...

from Freedom of the Park

The degree of freedom of the press existing in this country is often over-rated.

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by George OrwellEnglish Novelist, Essayist, Jo...

from Duty to Stand Aside

There is no sales value there, but it extends your publicity a little and by talking about these things on the air in wartime one has the feeling that one is keeping a tiny lamp alight somewhere. (From: Chapter 4: A Disagreement in Verse, Page 58..)

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by Max StirnerFather Anarchist-Egoism, Anarc...

from The Ego and Its Own

If the press is my own, I need permission of the state for employing it as I seek the permission to blow my nose. (From: Part 2, Chapter II, Section 2..)

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by VoltaireFrench Enlightenment Writer, H...

from Homily on the Interpretation of the New Testament

Wretches that we are, we insult the pagans, yet they never knew our theological quarrels; they have never shed a drop of blood for the interpretation of a dogma, and we have flooded the earth with it. (From: Page 143..)

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by VoltaireFrench Enlightenment Writer, H...

from A Treatise on Toleration

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs. (From: Page 169..)

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