The Great Are Only Great Because We

By No Means. I Have Just Given You My Serious And Well-considered Profession Of Faith. Although A Firm Friend Of Order, I Am (in The Full Force Of The Term) An Anarchist. Listen To Me.

All My Economic Ideas As Developed Over Twenty-five Years Can Be Summed Up In The Words: Agricultural-industrial Federation. All My Political Ideas Boil Down To A Similar Formula: Political Federation Or Decentralization.

Property Is Impossible.

I Stand Ready To Negotiate, But I Want No Part Of Laws: I Acknowledge None; I Protest Against Every Order With Which Some Authority May Feel Pleased On The Basis Of Some Alleged Necessity To Over-rule My Free Will. Laws: We Know What They Are, And What They Are Worth! They Are Spider Webs For The Rich And Mighty, Steel Chains For The Poor And Weak, Fishing Nets In The Hands Of Government.

To Be Governed ... Is To Be Watched, Inspected, Directed, Indoctrinated, Numbered, Estimated, Regulated, Commanded, Controlled, Law-driven, Preached At, Spied Upon, Censured, Checked, Valued, Enrolled - By Creatures Who Have Neither The Right, Nor The Wisdom, Nor The Virtue To Do So.