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Josiah Warren

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Also known as Warren

American social reformer, philosopher, inventor, musician, and author (1798–1874)

Person · Open Library

Born
1798
Died
1874
Works
14

Top works

  • The sovereignty of the individual
  • Practical applications of the elementary principles of true civilization to the minute details of every day life
  • True civilization
  • True civilization an immediate necessity
  • The principle of equivalents

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Listeners
7
Total plays
21

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Quotes

  • Public influence is the real government of the world.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the only legitimate sovereign of his or her person, time, and property, each living and acting at his own cost.
  • 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.

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