“...several of my personal friends urged me to refrain from talking about Anarchy at such a critical juncture, lest I compromise myself. Honestly, I cannot but thank them for their shows of affection; but then again, I cannot exonerate myself either from having deferred to their weakness and pusillanimity.

Do you not know, dearest friends, that counseling silence at that point was tantamount to asking me to commit moral suicide? Do you not know, friends, that where we anarchists are concerned, nothing takes precedence over the sublime ideal of which we are the modest pioneers?”