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

If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.

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

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

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

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

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement. For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.