I Do Not Wish To Be Either

The Government Can Do Nothing For You. But You Can Do Everything For Yourselves

Whoever Lays His Hand On Me To Govern Me Is A Usurper And Tyrant, And I Declare Him My Enemy.

If One Were To Ask. . ."what Is Slavery?" And I Should Answer In One Word, "murder," My Meaning Would Be Understood At Once. Why, Then, To This Other Question: "what Is Property?" May I Not Likewise Answer, "theft". . .?

Tormented By Conflicting Feelings, I Appealed To Reason ; And It Is Reason Which, Amid So Many Dogmatic Contradictions, Now Forces The Hypothesis Upon Me. A Priori Dogmatism, Applying Itself To God, Has Proved Fruitless: Who Knows Whither The Hypothesis, In Its Turn, Will Lead Us? I Will Explain Therefore How, Studying In The Silence Of My Heart, And Far From Every Human Consideration, The Mystery Of Social Revolutions, God, The Great Unknown, Has Become For Me An Hypothesis, I Mean A Necessary Dialectical Tool.

It Is The Liberty That Is The Mother, Not The Daughter, Of Order.