A Standing Army Is A Standing Menace

Years! Years, Ye Shall Mix With Me! Ye Shall Grow A Part Of The Laughing Sea; Of The Moaning Heart Of The Glittered Wave Of The Sun-gleam's Dart In The Ocean-grave. Fair, Cold, And Faithless Wert Thou, My Own! For That I Love Thy Heart Of Stone! From The Heights Above To The Depths Below, Where Dread Things Move, There Is Naught Can Show A Life So Trustless! Proud Be Thy Crown! Ruthless, Like None, Save The Sea, Alone!

The Question Of Souls Is Old—we Demand Our Bodies, Now. We Are Tired Of Promises, God Is Deaf, And His Church Is Our Worst Enemy.

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.

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.

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.