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Steve Allen
Steve Allen

Steve Allen was an American television personality, comedian, musician, and writer. He is renowned for hosting two iconic game shows, 'The Steve Allen Show' and 'The Tonight Show Starring Steve Allen', during the 1950s and 1960s. Allen was a versatile entertainer who also had a career as a radio personality and a stand-up comedian. more

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“Now, I appeal to the consciences of those that persecute, torment, destroy, and kill other men upon pretence of religion, whether they do it out of friendship and kindness towards them or no? I say, if all this be done merely to make men Christians and procure their salvation, why then do they suffer whoredom, fraud, malice and such-like enormities, which (according to the Apostle) manifestly relish of heathenish corruption, to predominate so much and abound amongst their flocks and people?”

“But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment, are the passions which prompt to invade property, passions much more steady in their operation, and much more universal in their influence. Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.”

“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.”

“Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.”