The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.

Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.

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

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

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

In times past...it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and I long ago sloughed it off. Man's only right to land is his might over it. If his neighbor is mightier than he and takes the land from him, then the land is his neighbor's, until the latter is dispossessed by one mightier still.

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