The Secretary of No State
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Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.
Etienne la Boetie, The Politics of Obedience
The Anarchists have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
Benjamin Tucker
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
Jacob Hornberger
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
H.L. Mencken (Letter to Upton Sinclair, October 14, 1917)

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You probably won’t see a lot of original posts authored by me…

There is nothing I want to say that hasn’t already been said better, so why waste the words?  Part of gathering knowledge is knowing when to shut up and listen, and part of wisdom is just learning when to shut up.

Your humble Secretary,

Ree

The love of material ease has been, in the mass of men and permanently speaking, always greater than the love of liberty. Nine hundred and ninety nine women out of a thousand are more interested in the cut of a dress than in the independence of their sex; nine hundred and ninety nine men out of a thousand are more interested in drinking a glass of beer than in questioning the tax that is laid on it…
Voltairine de Cleyre
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.
H.L. Mencken
A tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. Lewis
I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe- “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
Henry David Thoreau, On Civil Disobedience
Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito.
Do not give into evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
Virgil