I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.

We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.