Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end of that social organization which will arise, not out of the ruins of government, but out of the transformation of government into voluntary association for defence.

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

It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.

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

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