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Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will ...

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.

The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law ...

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

[T]he State ... gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

The right of the majority is absolute.

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.