Birth: April 17, 1854 Death: June 22, 1939
War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions..
He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one….
Aggression is simply another name for government..
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State..
There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape .... have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its resu….
The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows..
The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow aut….
The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law..
The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader..
In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists fa….
It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was perhaps the most vig….
Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be….
Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats..
But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care..
Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leader….
For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between Stat….
It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to th….
We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition..
The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a vol….
It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn ….
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control,….