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.

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

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

There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape .... have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow from authority .... As a choice of blessings, liberty is the greater; as a choice of evils, liberty is the smaller. Then liberty always says the Anarchist. No use of force except against the invader.

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

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

First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.