“…the British militarists in Ireland knew well what they were doing — they were killing the two men who were the coolest, the most intelligent, and the most resolute enemies of oppression alive in Ireland.”
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“I who write have been as much to blame as any; let me shake off my blame by stirring you to awaken now.”
“…in our war-drunk age, with the patriotic frothing of the press, the brutality of the vigilantes and the general confusion of our life, Jefferson [prison] may yet prove a preferable retreat.”
“Were the retrogressive ideas of the Jewish Nationalists ever to materialize, the world would witness, after a few years, that one Jew is being persecuted by another.”
“My book, in which are collected my essays on AntiMilitarism, Communism, and other Radicalism, has been prohibited and many copies seized by the Government, but the cunning publisher secretly sold 1,500 copies before the policemen came.”
“They protest now against the domineering spirit of the Germans, but as a matter of fact they are all ‘Germans.'”
“It was just after the insurrection of Louis Riel and his fellow Metis in the far Northwest, against the accumulated tyrannies of the Canadian Parliament.”
“We oppose conscription because we are internationalists, anti-militarists, and opposed to all wars waged by capitalistic governments. We will fight for what we choose to fight for; we will never fight simply because we are ordered to fight.”
“We have no sympathy whatever with the ‘libertarians’ – be they Socialists, Anarchists or what not – whose philosophic internationalism somersaults into rankest chauvinism the moment it is put to the practical test.”
“Our voices as anti-militarists, as Anarchists and free thinkers must be raised much louder and more powerfully in all the countries where burns the torch of the war, and also where the torch is still to be lit.”
