“No man has (or ever had) any inherent right to the use of the earth; nor to per

—“No man has (or ever had) any inherent right to the use of the earth; nor to personal independence; nor to property, nor to wives, nor to liberty of speech; nor to freedom of thought; nor to anything except he can (by himself or in conjunction with his allies) assert his ‘rights’ by Power.

What are (in popular parlance) called ‘rights,’ are really ‘spoil’ — the prerogatives of formerly exerted Might; but a ‘right’ lapses immediately, when those who are enjoying it, become incapable of further maintaining it.

Consequently all ‘rights’ are as transient as morning rainbows, international treaties, or clauses in a temporary armistice. They may be abrogated at any moment, by any one of the contracting parties, holding the necessary Power.

Broadly speaking therefore, Might is incarnated Right, and rights are metamorphosed mights. Power and Justice are synonyms; for Might is mighty and does prevail. They who possess the undisputable Might (be they one, ten, or ten million) may and do proclaim the Right.

Government is founded on property, property is founded on conquest, and conquest is founded on Power— and Power is founded on brain and brawn — on Organic Animality.

Just as parents dictate right to their children, so masterful animals dictate right to millions and millions of sodden-livered, baby-minded men.

Monarchic rulers are the gaudy jumping-jacks, and representative institutions the tax gathering mechanism of the Mighty-Ones. Banks and safe-deposits are their treasure-stores, and armies and navies their sentinels, executioners, watchmen.” – Sam Hyde