Against the enemy, revendication is eternal.
LAW OF THE TWELVE TABLES.

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CHAPTER I.
METHOD PURSUED IN THIS WORK.--THE IDEA OF A
REVOLUTION.

If I were asked to answer the following question: WHAT IS
SLAVERY? and I should answer in one word, IT IS MURDER, my
meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would
be required to show that the power to take from a man his
thought, his will, his personality, is a power of life and death;
and that to enslave a man is to kill him. Why, then, to this
other question: WHAT IS PROPERTY! may I not likewise answer,
IT IS ROBBERY, without the certainty of being misunderstood;
the second proposition being no other than a transformation of
the first?

I undertake to discuss the vital principle of our government and
our institutions, property: I am in my right. I may be mistaken
in the conclusion which shall result from my investigations: I
am in my right. I think best to place the last thought of my
book first: still am I in my right.

Such an author teaches that property is a civil right, born of
occupation and sanctioned by law; another maintains that it is a
natural right, originating in labor,--and both of these
doctrines, totally opposed as they may seem, are encouraged and
applauded. I contend that neither labor, nor occupation, nor