“An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.”

—  Frank Van Dun

E-mail to LewRockwell.com http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/003291.html (2004-01-20).

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