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.

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.

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

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

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

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.

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