"Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech……" — Voltairine de Cleyre
"Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license," and they will define freedom out of existence."
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Voltairine de Cleyre
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A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.
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There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.
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The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today…
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There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
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I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
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No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for…
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Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the…
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Capitalistic Anarchism ? Oh, yes, if you choose to call it so. Names are indifferent to me; I am not…
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Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly…
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If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government;…
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And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown…
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The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his…
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