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• Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency.
  .. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded....
• We are on strike. Why should this seem so startling?
  There is only one kind of men who have never been on strike in human history....
• The conclusions seem inescapable that in certain circles a tendency has arisen to fear people who fear government.
  Government, as the Father of Our Country put it so well, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master....
• It is better never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.
• It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground.
  But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree....
• The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.
  -- Leslie Dixon Weatherhead...