Man’s only right to land is his might over it. If his neighbor is mightier than he and takes the land from him, then the land is his neighbor’s, until the latter is dispossessed by one mightier still.
BENJAMIN TUCKERAggression is simply another name for government.
More Benjamin Tucker Quotes
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The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
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If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.
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Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty’s work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.
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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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The right of the majority is absolute.
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Give woman equality with man, by all means; but do it by taking power from man, not giving it to woman.
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We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
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After the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
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We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
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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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Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
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As a choice of blessings, liberty is the greater; as a choice of evils, liberty is the smaller. Then liberty always says the Anarchist. No use of force except against the invader.
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But which is the State’s essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
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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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Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.
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