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All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
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The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
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The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.
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Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.
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When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.
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The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.
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The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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