“Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.”

Anarchy (1891) http://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1891/xx/anarchy.htm <br class="br">Context: Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, &quot;without government&quot;: the state of a people without any constituted authority.<br>Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word “anarchy” was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.

Conversation with Queen Victoria after a Royal Command performance of The Gondoliers in March 1891, the 'gags' in question are ad libs added by the actors during the performance
Quoted in The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan, Ian Bradley, OUP, 1996. Originally found in the magazine The Era

Source: The Passing of an Illusion, The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century (1999), p. 7

Dialectica, Vol. 2, No. 3/4 (1948), p. 326.

Ten Reasons We Can't, and Shouldn't, Be Nordic (2018)

Article 6
Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)