Josiah Warren
Josiah Warren
Josiah Warrenwas an individualist anarchist, inventor, musician, and author in the United States. He is regarded by some as the first American anarchist, and the four-page weekly paper he edited during 1833, The Peaceful Revolutionist, was the first anarchist periodical published, an enterprise for which he built his own printing press, cast his own type, and made his own printing plates...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionInventor
CountryUnited States of America
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common radical discovering
It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.
abroad american-inventor bound engaged forming gone great impression
An impression has gone abroad that I am engaged in forming societies. This is a very great mistake, which I feel bound to correct.
real sound corny
It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.
confused aggravation decline
I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.
destiny men individuality
Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him, that he is and always shall be sovereign of himself and all relating to his individuality. Then only shall all men realize security of person and property.
insecurity principles ruins
It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.
crush money use
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.
power wealth rich
The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.
mistake firsts combination
Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.
appreciation men voice
To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a fundamental error in human legislation -- a madness which would be only equaled by requiring all men to possess the same countenance, the same voice or the same stature.
real government world
Public influence is the real government of the world.
luxury empires individual
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
liberty individual sovereignty
Liberty is the sovereignty of the individual.
atheism church harmony
The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.