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Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
Mikhail Bakunin
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Mikhail Bakunin
Age: 62 †
Born: 1814
Born: May 30
Died: 1876
Died: July 1
Anarchist
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Michail Alexandrovich Bakunin
A. M. Bakunin
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