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

It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. 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.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

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

Anarchism may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished..... Nor does the Anarchistic scheme furnish any code of morals to be imposed upon the individual. "Mind your own business" is its own moral law. Interference with another's business is a crime and the only crime, and as such may properly be resisted.

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

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