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.

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.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

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

He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man ... or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.

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

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.