Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
BENJAMIN TUCKERIf the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
More Benjamin Tucker Quotes
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It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.
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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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The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
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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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The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
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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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We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
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First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.
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Bill Watterson
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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.
BENJAMIN TUCKERI 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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Mind your own business” is its own moral law. Interference with another’s business is a crime and the only crime, and as such may properly be resisted.
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It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest on money through the beneficent influence of competition.
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The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.
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