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Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!. Johann Most

Say Above Shame He Without None Revolutionary Socialist

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost. Johann Most

Freedom Failure Cause Lost Anarchism Possible Attain Attempts Does Mean

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality. Leon Trotsky

Reality People Myth Become Russian Russian People Being Patriotic Awful

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. Leon Trotsky

Time Great Made Mistakes More Had Discussion Should Many

Though my conduct on the 10th of August 1792 was the act of my life of which I have most reason to be proud, I will here merely do homage to the worthy martyrs of the national sovereignty and the sworn laws, who, while they supported constitutional royalty, manifested the highest degree of republican virtue. Marquis de Lafayette

Life Will Degree My Life National Virtue Though Worthy Constitutional Laws Martyrs Highest Highest Degree Merely Supported Most Proud August Conduct National Sovereignty Sovereignty Which While Manifested Republican Act Homage Reason Who Sworn Here Royalty

I am astonished but not discouraged by my enormous responsibility. Devoted both from affection and duty to the cause of the people, I shall combat with equal ardor aristocracy, despotism, and faction. Marquis de Lafayette

People Cause Responsibility Discouraged Affection Duty Enormous Astonished Despotism Ardor Shall Both Faction Aristocracy Combat Equal Devoted Am

Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens. Marquis de Lafayette

Must Citizens Laws Clear Precise Uniform

I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune. Marquis de Lafayette

Friendship Time Good Experience Good And Evil Evil Soldiers Dangers Having Both Shared Arises Officers American Which Length Them Fortune Sufferings

During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!' Marquis de Lafayette

Happiness Example Revolution Congress Lesson Thinking France Completed Everywhere Would Seeing Except French Voyage Said Occur Oppressed Oppressors America May Published Serve Enjoyed Last Speech

Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero. Marquis de Lafayette

Life Liberty Welfare Burden Country Ambition Believe Danger Recompense Shall Remains Step Advantage Calculate Hour Return Accept Private Arriving Provided Private Life Done May Tranquillity Refuse Public Now Zero

No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the great hereditary magistracy exercised by the king; but in a free country, there can only be citizens and public officers. Marquis de Lafayette

Great King Free Giving Country Energy Citizens Free Country More Only Splendour Am Than Person Officers Public Convinced Necessity Hereditary

I can assure the Marquis de Chasteler that it is my unalterable determination never to set foot on any territory which acknowledges obedience to His Majesty the King of Bohemia and Hungary. Marquis de Lafayette

Obedience Determination Hungary King Assure Foot Never Majesty Territory His Any Acknowledge Which Bohemia Set

An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician. Marquis de Lafayette

I have found a unique opportunity to distinguish myself and to learn my trade. I am a general officer in the army of the United States of America. My zeal in their cause and my frankness have won their trust. Marquis de Lafayette

Myself Army Trust Opportunity Cause States Distinguish Frankness General Learn Trade Am Won Officer America Unique Unique Opportunity Zeal Found United United States United States Of America

It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation. Marquis de Lafayette

Prosperity Will Thought King Nation Other States Some Constitutions Indispensable Foolishly Nobility Quarrel Least Cannot Each Last

In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country. Marquis de Lafayette

Property Rights Citizen Country Citizens Some Individual None America Same Poor Landed Richest Even Each Peasants

Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This idea consoles me, for nothing is so painful as being persecuted by one's own fellow-citizens. Marquis de Lafayette

Me Own Nothing State Guided Consoles Paris Idea Foreigners Persecuted Infernal Tranquil Being Painful Appears

I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the priests of all sorts by claiming religious liberty; the anarchists by repressing them; and the conspirators by rejecting their offers. Marquis de Lafayette

Liberty Anarchist Claiming Religious Religious Liberty Blaming Had Priests Aristocratic Powers Sort Offers Legitimate Them Usurpation Rejecting

I feel happy that twenty-five years of vicissitudes in my fortune, and firmness in my principles, warrant me in repeating here that if, to recover her rights, it is sufficient for a nation to resolve to do so, she can preserve them only by rigid fidelity to her civil and moral duties. Marquis de Lafayette

Me Rights Happy Nation Resolve Rigid Moral Civil Only Recover Feel Firmness She Principles Years Repeating Duties Fidelity Them Warrant Fortune Twenty-Five Sufficient Her Here Preserve

The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence. Mikhail Bakunin

Communism People Strong Will Nation State Find Parasitic Seeks Marx Always Existence Exists Labor Where Which Centralization Means Jewish

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