"The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by...

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends
~ Alexis de Tocqueville ~












Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by thei...
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