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As a modern publisher might put it, he was not worrying about circulation or about advertising. Hence, with all such obsessions quite out of the way, he was in a position to do his level best, without fear or favour, and answerable only to his august Boss.

— Albert Jay Nock Isaiah's Job (1936)

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You do not know, and will never know, who the Remnant are, nor what they are doing or will do.

Isaiah's Job (1936)

As against Jesus, the historic choice of the mass-man goes regularly to some Barabbas.

Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943)

In any given society the Remnant are always so largely an unknown quantity.

Isaiah's Job (1936)

The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.

Our Enemy, the State (1935)

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

Our Enemy, the State (1935)

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