Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is…

— Benjamin Tucker

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

— Benjamin Tucker

The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on…

— Benjamin Tucker

In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor…

— Benjamin Tucker

During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later…

— George Orwell

The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

— Johann Most

Actually, my first article, it wasn't about the anarchists; it was about the fall of Barcelona and the spread of fascism over Europe, which…

— Noam Chomsky

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts…

— Peter Krause

You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The most important thing [anarchists] can do is educate themselves, develop a propaganda machinery in the form of books and periodicals, a literature, engage…

— Murray Bookchin

We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that…

— Murray Rothbard

Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life…

— Errico Malatesta

The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

— Harry Reid

Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political…

— Rudolf Rocker