When deeds speak, words are nothing.

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

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.

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

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.