Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom. Physical violence is the basis of authority. Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part. Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robe of the tyrant it has deposed.
Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it. Qui desiderat pacem, preparet bellum. Who desires peace should prepare for war. He who lives in fear will never, in my judgment, be a free man. In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens and to give it to the other.