The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

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

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.

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.