Happy birthday, Voltairine!
My favorite, erm, "historical" figure was born today in 1866. Probably my favorite woman to have ever lived, too.
“To me any dependence, anything which destroys the complete self-hood of the individual, is in the line of slavery.”
“If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never entrust that instruction to any government; for the nature of government is to become a thing apart, an institution existing for its own sake, preying upon the people, and teaching whatever will tend to keep it secure in its seat.”
Her essay Anarchism and American Traditions.