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" Come all ye conservatives and liberals
who want to conserve the good things and be free,
come away from the merchants of big answers,
whose hands are metalled with power;
from the union of anywhere and everywhere
by the purchase of everything from everybody at the lowest price
and the sale of anything to anybody at the highest price;
from the union of work and debt, work and despair;
from the wage-slavery of the helplessly well-employed.

From the union of self-gratification and self-annihilation,
secede into care for one another
and for the good gifts of Heaven and Earth. "

Wendell Berry , The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry


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Wendell Berry quote : Come all ye conservatives and liberals<br />who want to conserve the good things and be free,<br />come away from the merchants of big answers,<br />whose hands are metalled with power;<br />from the union of anywhere and everywhere<br />by the purchase of everything from everybody at the lowest price<br />and the sale of anything to anybody at the highest price;<br />from the union of work and debt, work and despair;<br />from the wage-slavery of the helplessly well-employed.<br /><br />From the union of self-gratification and self-annihilation,<br />secede into care for one another<br />and for the good gifts of Heaven and Earth.