The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.

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

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.

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.

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

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.