Birth: April 17, 1854 Death: June 22, 1939
It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go….
First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of i….
An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definitio….
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least i….
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control..
Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all..
Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is the mother of ord….
Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a….
[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products..
Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than a p….
Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up..
The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But it….
The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business..
Anarchism may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State….
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth..
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction..
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury..
Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act..
One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This ….
The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice..
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it s….