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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Anarchy

In a state of anarchy power is the measure of right.

Lucan.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

Milton.

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

Carlyle.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

Æsop.