The State Is Nothing But An Instrument

In 10 Years, This Sleepy Canada Will Be Ripe For Annexation - The Farmers In Manitoba, Etc., Will Demand It Themselves. Besides, The Country Is Half Annexed Already Socially - Hotels, Newspapers, Advertising, Etc., All On The American Pattern.

Everything Must Justify Its Existence Before The Judgment Seat Of Reason, Or Give Up Existence.

We Find Two Great Gangs Of Political Speculators, Who Alternately Take Possession Of The State Power And Exploit It By The Most Corrupt Ends -- The Nation Is Powerless Against These Two Great Cartels Of Politicians Who Are Ostensibly Its Servants, But In Reality Dominate And Plunder It.

People Have Learned By Bitter Experience That The "european Fraternal Union Of Peoples" Cannot Be Achieved By Mere Phrases And Pious Wishes, But Only By Profound Revolutions And Bloody Struggles; They Have Learned That The Question Is Not That Of A Fraternal Union Of All European Peoples Under A Single Republican Flag, But Of An Alliance Of The Revolutionary Peoples Against The Counter-revolutionary Peoples, An Alliance Which Comes Into Being Not On Paper, But Only On The Battlefield.

I Have Learned More [from Balzac] Than From All The Professional Historians, Economists, And Statisticians Put Together.