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1 1| governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that 2 2| show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even 3 2| is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting 4 2| one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of 5 3| themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once 6 4| justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there 7 4| think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. 8 4| corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a 9 4| conscience. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by 10 4| inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? or small movable 11 9| The mass of men serve the state thus, not 12 9| serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, 13 9| earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured 14 9| command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. 15 9| in the great sense, and men - serve the state with their 16 16| All men recognize the right of revolution; 17 16| not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. 18 21| to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement 19 22| It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that 20 22| the action of masses of men. When the majority shall 21 23| chiefly of editors, and men who are politicians by profession; 22 23| returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand 23 23| offer any inducement for men to settle here? The American 24 24| go"; and yet these very men have each, directly by their 25 27| transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a 26 32| for it is, after all, with men and not with parchment that 27 32| if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name - if ten 28 32| could name - if ten honest men only - ay, if one HONEST 29 33| alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war 30 33| to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills 31 34| valuable, that is, if you are men of the State, and gladly 32 36| in writing: - "Know all men by these presents, that 33 38| themselves. I do not hear of men being forced to have this 34 38| way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were 35 40| were composed by some young men who had been detected in 36 49| regard for the opinions of men. Let him see that he does 37 50| myself, When many millions of men, without heat, without ill 38 50| as to so many millions of men, and not of mere brute or 39 50| right to be satisfied with men as they are, and to treat 40 60| I know that most men think differently from myself; 41 60| without it. They may be men of a certain experience 42 60| follower. His leaders are the men of '87 - "I have never made 43 62| politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the 44 63| afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual