It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.