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

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

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

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

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

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.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.