It is not as a generality that you and I differ, but as a couple of facts which are not to be reasoned into one. It is high time to stop the repetition of the statement that anarchy represents the ideal of the greatest possible liberty. People ingenuously believe that liberty is a thing to be distributed, and that it would be well to give it to all men. Universal liberty, on the contrary, would result in a greater number of unimpeded actions, that is to say, in universal helplessness. And it is clear that any society in which the few are free must necessarily contain many who are slaves.
Despotism is the only practical ideal of anarchy.
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