Our First Work Must Be The Annihilation

In Every State, The Government Is Nothing But A Permanent Conspiracy On The Part Of The Minority Against The Majority, Which It Enslaves And Fleeces.

This Contradiction Lies Here: They Wish God, And They Wish Humanity. They Persist In Connecting Two Terms Which, Once Separated, Can Come Together Again Only To Destroy Each Other.

For Ten Centuries Christianity, Armed With The Omnipotence Of The Church And State And Opposed By No Competition, Was Able To Deprave, Debase, And Falsify The Mind Of Europe. It Had No Competitors, Because Outside The Church There Was Neither Thinkers Nor Educated Persons. It Alone Taught, It Alone Spoke And Wrote, It Alone Taught.

Does It Follow That I Reject All Authority? Perish The Thought. In The Matter Of Boots, I Defer To The Authority Of The Boot-maker.

Liberty Is So Great A Magician, Endowed With So Marvelous A Power Of Productivity, That Under The Inspiration Of This Spirit Alone, North America Was Able Within Less Than A Century To Equal, And Even Surpass, The Civilization Of Europe.