A standing army is a standing menace to liberty..

... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds; ... it i….

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?.

Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the developm….

What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is co….

And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins of our early free….

[The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes through ….

This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To hope that it c….

And sometimes when I am weary, When the path is thorny and Wild, I'll look back to the Eyes in the twilight, Back to the eyes that smiled. And pr….

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly..

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it..

The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy..

The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles t….

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one..

Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and ….

Miss Goldman is a Communist; I am an Individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property, I wish to assert it. I make my war upon privilege an….

If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government; for the nature of gover….

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 right , in the abstract, is a fact ; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it is. Of the exercise of a right power may deprive ….

Speak, speak, speak, & remember that whenever anyone's liberty to speak is denied, your liberty is denied also, & your place is where the attack is..

There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another..