I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

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.

All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is determined by the natural division of work and by the choice he makes of a profession, if the social functions are combined in such a way as to produce a harmonious effect, order results from the free activity of all men; there is no government. Whoever puts a hand on me to govern me is an usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy.

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.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.