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.

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.

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

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.

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

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

If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.