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

The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of the world, he begins to feel an increasing disposition to let others alone and to refrain even from retaliation or resistance except in those emergencies which immediately and imperatively require it.

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

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

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

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

It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest on money through the beneficent influence of competition. Capital will be set free, business will flourish, new enterprises will start, labor will be in demand, and gradually the wages of labor will rise to a level with its product.