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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.

No One Can Hate Petitions Worse Than I, And No One Has Less Faith In Them Than I. But For My Champion I Am Willing To Try Any Means That Invades No Other's Right, Even Though I Have Little Hope In It.

There Is No Peace Now, And There Will Never Be Peace, So Long As One Rules Over Another.

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 Can Ever Become Anything Else Is The Vainest Of Delusions. They Tell You That Anarchy, The Dream Of Social Order Without Government, Is A Wild Fancy. The Wildest Dream That Ever Entered The Heart Of Man Is The Dream That Mankind Can Ever Help Itself Through An Appeal To Law, Or To Come To Any Order That Will Not Result In Slavery Wherein There Is Any Excuse For Government.

If The Believers In Liberty Wish The Principles Of Liberty Taught, Let Them Never Intrust That Instruction To Any Government; For The Nature Of Government Is To Become A Thing Apart, An Institution Existing For Its Own Sake, Preying Upon The People, And Teaching Whatever Will Tend To Keep It Secure In Its Seat.