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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Lysander Spooner
Born: January 19, 1808
Died: May 14, 1887 (aged 79)
Bio: Lysander Spooner was an American individualist anarchist, political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian Christian abolitionist, supporter of the labor movement, legal theorist, and entrepreneur of the nineteenth century.
Known for:
- No Treason (1867)
- The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1845)
- An essay on the trial by jury (1852)
- Vices Are Not Crimes
- The Lysander Spooner Reader
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