We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape .... have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow from authority .... As a choice of blessings, liberty is the greater; as a choice of evils, liberty is the smaller. Then liberty always says the Anarchist. No use of force except against the invader.

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

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

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

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.

Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.