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No One Can Hate Petitions Worse Than I, And No One Has Less Faith In Them Than I. But For My Champion I Am Willing To Try Any Means That Invades No Other's Right, Even Though I Have Little Hope In It.

... It Is Better To Study How To Live Rather Than How To Die; ... It Is Better To Have A Religion Of Deeds Rather Than A Religion Of Creeds; ... It Is Better To Work For Humanity Than For God.

What I Say Is, That The Real Non-resistants Can Believe In Direct Action Only, Never In Political Action. For The Basis Of All Political Action Is Coercion; Even When The State Does Good Things, It Finally Rests On A Club, A Gun, Or A Prison, For Its Power To Carry Them Through.

Government Is As Unreal, As Intangible, As Unapproachable As God. Try It, If You Don't Believe It. Seek Through The Legislative Halls Of America And Find, If You Can, The Government. In The End You Will Be Doomed To Confer With The Agent, As Before.

As Long As The Working-people Fold Hands And Pray The Gods In Washington To Give Them Work, So Long They Will Not Get It.