Felix Morley Quotes

#1. Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.

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#2. The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

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#3. A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

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#4. Free enterprise is a natural result of the American form of government, which says in so many words that the more men do for themselves, the less government does for them, the better off we will all be.

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#5. Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

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#6. It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

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#7. The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily.

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