Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.

Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world.

Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those who suffer to the most energetic struggles to improve their lot, and if these struggles only immediately result in sharper misery, the outcome is sheer desperation.

Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.