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Benjamin Tucker

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
BENJAMIN TUCKER

Essence Government Transcendentalism
I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade.
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Amount Belief Compatible Liberty
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
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Anarchist Anarchy Government
Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is the mother of order; but, as a matter of definition, liberty is not order nor is Anarchism co-operation.
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Liberty Mother Order
Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.
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Genocide Hate Men
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.
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Government Liberty Purpose
It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions.
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Passive Peaceful Resistance War
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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Ignorance May Punishment
In times past…it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and I long ago sloughed it off.
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Ago Long Men Past
We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
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Any Earth Right
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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Anarchy Law Men Possible
The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
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Men Power Tyrant
But the apparent inconsistency vanishes when you read his book and find that by property he means simply legally privileged wealth or the power of usury, and not at all the possession by the labourer of his products.
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Apparent Mean Power Privilege Simply Usury Vanish
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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Anarchy Believe Government
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
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Country Names School
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
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Injury Insult Liberty Men

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