It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.
BENJAMIN TUCKERMonopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty’s work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.
More Benjamin Tucker Quotes
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Aggression is simply another name for government.
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Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
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The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that ‘the best government is that which governs least,’ and that which governs least is no government at all.
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The main question … is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.
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Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable…
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Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
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He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man,
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Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement.
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Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.
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Capital will be set free, business will flourish, new enterprises will start, labor will be in demand, and gradually the wages of labor will rise to a level with its product.
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The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.
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And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, – at least in theory.
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The right of the majority is absolute.
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The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
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This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.
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