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If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

Benjamin Tucker

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 TUCKER

Essence Men Names
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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Banking Competition Wages
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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Names School Socialistic Two
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
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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Choice Individual Men Swag
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
It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.
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Church Corruption War
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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Another Changed Governor Invasion Man
Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.
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Blow Strikes Wages
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 … or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
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Democracy Invasion Men
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
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
But which is the State’s essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
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Aquarium Care Essential
[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.
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Giving Increase States
We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
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Any Earth Right
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

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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