The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.

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

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.

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

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.