Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

The anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that a

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”