This Is What The Government Is, Has

The Paramount Question Of The Day Is Not Political, Is Not Religious, But Is Economic. The Crying-out Demand Of Today Is For A Circle Of Principles That Shall Forever Make It Impossible For One Man To Control Another By Controlling The Means Of His Existence.

The Revolution Is ... The Blow Dealt ... Agains The Counter Force Of Tyranny, Which Has Never Entirely Recovered From The Blow, But Which From Then Till Now Has Gone On Remolding And Regrappling The Instruments Of Governmental Power, That The Revolution Sought To Shape And Hold As Defenses Of Liberty.

And Now, What Has Anarchism To Say To All This, This Bankruptcy Of Republicanism, This Modern Empire That Has Grown Up On The Ruins Of Our Early Freedom? We Say This, That The Sin Our Fathers Sinned Was That They Did Not Trust Liberty Wholly. They Thought It Possible To Compromise Between Liberty And Government, Believing The Latter To Be 'a Necessary Evil,' And The Moment The Compromise Was Made, The Whole Misbegotten Monster Of Our Present Tyranny Began To Grow. Instruments Which Are Set Up To Safeguard Rights Become The Very Whip With Which The Free Are Struck.

But What The Working-class Can Do, When Once They Grow Into A Solidified Organization, Is To Show The Possessing Class, Through A Sudden Cessation Of All Work, That The Whole Social Structure Rests On Them; That The Possessions Of The Others Are Absolutely Worthless To Them Without The Workers' Activity; That Such Protests, Such Strikes, Are Inherent In The System Of Property And Will Continually Recur Until The Whole Thing Is Abolished - And Having Shown That Effectively, Proceed To Expropriate.

I Think It Can Be Shown That The Law Makes Ten Criminals Where It Restrains One.