"I demand whether all wars, bloodshed and misery came not upon the creation when one man endeavored to be a lord over another? ...

"I demand whether all wars, bloodshed and misery came not upon the creation when one man endeavored to be a lord over another? ... And whether this misery shall not remove ... when all the branches of mankind shall look upon the earth as one common treasury to all." - Gerrard Winstanley, The New Law of Righteousness, 1649