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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

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
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Anarchist Democrat
It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.
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Beyond Bullet More Representative
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
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Equality Liberty Use
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
An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.
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Anarchy Definitions Government
There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape …. have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow from authority ….
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Blessing Evil Perfection
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 Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
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Anarchist Liberty Perfection
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
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Privilege Slavery Voting
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 right of the majority is absolute.
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Absolutes Majority
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
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Contradiction Exercise Two
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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Benefit Different Maintaining
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
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Discovery Eugenics Mean
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
We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
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Any Earth Right

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