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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>"<FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">As long as
mankind continue to pay "national debts," so-called — that is, so long as they
are such dupes and cowards as to pay for being cheated, plundered, enslaved, and
murdered — so long there will be enough to lend the money for those purposes;
and with that money a plenty of tools, called soldiers, can be hired to keep
them in subjection. But when they refuse any longer to pay for being thus
cheated, plundered, enslaved, and murdered, they will cease to have cheats, and
usurpers, and robbers, and murderers and blood-money loan-mongers for masters.
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Lysander Spooner, "No Treason",
1867.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>["<FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"> ...the
ostensible supporters of most other governments, are made up of three classes,
viz.: 1. Knaves, a numerous and active class, who see in the government an
instrument which they can use for their own aggrandizement or wealth. 2. Dupes —
a large class, no doubt — each of whom, because he is allowed one voice out of
millions in deciding what he may do with his own person and his own property,
and because he is permitted to have the same voice in robbing, enslaving, and
murdering others, that others have in robbing, enslaving, and murdering himself,
is stupid enough to imagine that he is a "free man," a "sovereign"; that this is
"a free government"; "a government of equal rights," "the best government on
earth," and such like absurdities. 3. A class who have some appreciation
of the evils of government, but either do not see how to get rid of them, or do
not choose to so far sacrifice their private interests as to give themselves
seriously and earnestly to the work of making a change. "] -
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