... It Is Better To Study How

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.

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.

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.

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 Pray That A Wreath Like A Rainbow May Slip From The Beautiful Past, And Crown Me Again With The Sweet, Strong Love And Keep Me, And Hold Me Fast.

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.