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Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.

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War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

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We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.

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The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

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The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

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But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

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Passive resistance and boycotting are now prominent features of every great national movement.

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The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.

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To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

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Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

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Once for all, then, we are not opposed to the punishment of thieves and murderers; we are opposed to their manufacture.

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Taking this view of the matter, the Anarchists contend that defence is not an essential of the State, but that aggression is.

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The Anarchists believe in civil society; only they insist that the freedom of civil society shall be complete instead of partial.

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If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

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Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and "Down with Authority" her war-cry.

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The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

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Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

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It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

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First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.

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I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

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The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.

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I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.

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This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.

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The Anarchists believe in the family; they only insist that free competition and experiment shall always be allowed in order that it may be determined what form of family best secures this object.

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