Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.

He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.