If You Want To Know The People

Sometimes He Would Advise Me To Read Poetry, And Would Send Me In His Letters Quantities Of Verses And Whole Poems, Which He Wrote From Memory. 'read Poetry,' He Wrote: 'poetry Makes Men Better.' How Often, In My Later Life, I Realized The Truth Of This Remark Of His! Read Poetry: It Makes Men Better.

I Understand Regicide As A Means Of Obtaining Vengeance For The Ruin Of Our Lives, But Regicide As A Means Of Obtaining Political Freedom I Could Never Understand.

America Is Just The Country That Shows 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.

True Progress Lies In The Direction Of Decentralization, Both Territorial And Functional, In The Development Of The Spirit Of Local And Personal Initiative, And Of Free Federation From The Simple To The Compound, In Lieu Of The Present Hierarchy From The Centre To The Periphery.

The Law Has No Claim To Human Respect. It Has No Civilizing Mission; Its Only Purpose Is To Protect Exploitation.