A Standing Army Is A Standing Menace

[the Catholic Convent] Had Been Like The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death, And There Are White Scars On My Soul, Where Ignorance And Superstition Burnt Me With Their Hell Fire In Those Stifling Days.

Among The Fundamental Likeness Between The Revolutionary Republicans And The Anarchists Is The Recognition That The Little Must Precede The Great; That The Local Must Be The Basis Of The General; That There Can Be A Free Federation Only When There Are Free Communities To Federate; That The Spirit Of The Latter Is Carried Into The Councils Of The Former, And A Local Tyranny May Thus Become An Instrument For General Enslavement.

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.

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 And Authority, Whereby The Right Of Property, The True Right In That Which Is Proper To The Individual, Is Annihilated. She Believes That Co-operation Would Entirely Supplant Competition; I Hold That Competition In One Form Or Another Will Always Exist, And That It Is Highly Desirable It Should.

... 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 Is Better To Work For Humanity Than For God.