"After all there is the two edged sword that will never fail you, with enthusiasm for one of its edges and irony for the other. However mired and weedy be the current of life there will be always joy and loyalty enough left to keep you unwavering in the faith that politics is not as it seems in clouded moments, a mere gabble and squabble of selfish interests, but that it is the State in action. And the State is the name by which we call the great human conspiracy against hunger and cold, against loneliness and ignorance; the State is the foster-mother and warden of the arts, of love, of comradeship, of all that redeems from despair that strange adventure which we call human life."
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The Day's Burden: Studies Literary & Political, and Miscellaneous Essays (1910).
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Thomas Kettle
Thomas Michael "Tom" Kettle (9 February 1880 – 9 September 1916) was an Irish writer, barrister, Irish nationalist politician and economist.
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