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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Aggression is simply another name for government.