[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.

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

Anarchism may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished..... Nor does the Anarchistic scheme furnish any code of morals to be imposed upon the individual. "Mind your own business" is its own moral law. Interference with another's business is a crime and the only crime, and as such may properly be resisted.

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.

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

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

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