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.
BENJAMIN TUCKERAnarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
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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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War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
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Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
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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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We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
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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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Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable…
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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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But which is the State’s essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
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One thing, however, is sure, – that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.
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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.
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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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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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The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
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