The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of the world, he begins to feel an increasing disposition to let others alone and to refrain even from retaliation or resistance except in those emergencies which immediately and imperatively require it.

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

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

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

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.

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

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.