I Think It Can Be Shown That

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.

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.

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.

Socialism And Communism Both Demand A Degree Of Joint Effort And Administration Which Would Beget More Regulation Than Is Wholly Consistent With Ideal Anarchism; Individualism And Mutualism, Resting Upon Property, Involve A Development Of The Private Policeman Not At All Compatible With My Notion Of Freedom.

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.