the government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves.

If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other….

The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas..

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!.

Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign..

Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race..

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!.

Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the hypothesis upo….

All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it..

To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached ….

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society..

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism..

When deeds speak, words are nothing..

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a th….

Property is impossible..

it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order..

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution..

Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints..

By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of th….

Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon ….

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets ….