“Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is at once overturned by its madmen and scoundrels and lapses into barbarism.” GovernmentLawExistenceMadmenBarbarismScoundrelsLapses Book:Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments Source: Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments
“Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.” KnowsWarLawDemocraticPeacefulBombsGravityNuclear WeaponsInterfereBarbarismDemocratic SocietyIsmsMilitarism Book:European spring Source: European spring
“To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.” WholePastLawJusticePrinciplesEffectsEqualLaborSlaveRememberedBordersLakesRepublicEverlastingGeorgiaPacificCarolinaUnrequitedBarbarismSlopesMaineMassachusettsRelicsFugitiveMaturedVillainy Author:Horace Mann