Roy Childs Quote

What is anarchism, anyway? Anarchism is the doctrine (as theoretician Benjamin R. Tucker has stated it) that the State should be abolished, and that all the affairs of men should be handled by individuals or voluntary associations. Anarchism is thus the opposition to and denial of the legitimacy of a positive belief; namely, that the State is moral and necessary. It is alleged that anarchism is a need of man only in the sense that the absence of a specific disease is a need of man, or a precondition of health.

Anarchism & Justice, Part I: V. The Epistemological Status of the Issue, published serially in nine sections grouped into four parts in SIL's The Individualist in 1971 and 1972.