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The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it it mortgages the income of future generations, and steers resolutely toward bankruptcy.
Peter Kropotkin
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Peter Kropotkin
Age: 78 †
Born: 1842
Born: December 9
Died: 1921
Died: February 8
Anarchist
Autobiographer
Economist
Explorer
Geographer
Journalist
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
Pyotr Kropotkin
Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin
P. Kropotkin
P. A. Kropotkin
Prince Peter Krapotkin
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