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.