A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.

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

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

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

If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . .?

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.