A Standing Army Is A Standing Menace

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 Freedom? We Say This, That The Sin Our Fathers Sinned Was That They Did Not Trust Liberty Wholly. They Thought It Possible To Compromise Between Liberty And Government, Believing The Latter To Be 'a Necessary Evil,' And The Moment The Compromise Was Made, The Whole Misbegotten Monster Of Our Present Tyranny Began To Grow. Instruments Which Are Set Up To Safeguard Rights Become The Very Whip With Which The Free Are Struck.

A Man Won't Steal, Ordinarily, Unless That Which He Steals Is Something He Cannot As Easily Get Without Stealing; In Liberty The Cost Of Stealing Would Involve Greater Difficulties Than Producing, And Consequently He Would Not Be Apt To Steal.

The Revolution Is ... The Blow Dealt ... Agains The Counter Force Of Tyranny, Which Has Never Entirely Recovered From The Blow, But Which From Then Till Now Has Gone On Remolding And Regrappling The Instruments Of Governmental Power, That The Revolution Sought To Shape And Hold As Defenses Of Liberty.

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.

Let Every Woman Ask Herself: "why Am I The Slave Of Man? Why Is My Brain Said Not To Be The Equal Of His Brain? Why Is My Work Notpaid Equally With His? Why Must My Body Be Controlled By My Husband? Why May He Take My Labor In The Household, Giving Me In Exchange What He Deems Fit? Why May He Take My Children From Me? Will Them Away While Yet Unborn?" Let Every Woman Ask.