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• We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
• War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
• Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more…
• Aggression is simply another name for government.
• It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that…
• It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions…
• Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more…
• Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
• One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the…
• The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs…
• The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive…
• An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign…

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