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Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

Benjamin Tucker

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
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Anarchy Evil Unnecessary
The right of the majority is absolute.
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Absolutes Majority
Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
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Anarchist Democrat
Anarchism may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished….. Nor does the Anarchistic scheme furnish any code of morals to be imposed upon the individual. “
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Business Law Men Mind Own
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
We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
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Any Earth Right
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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Anarchist Anarchy Government
[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
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
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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Competition Opportunity War
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
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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Business Interference Mind Resisted
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, – at least in theory.
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Ignorance May Punishment
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
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Equality Liberty Use
We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
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Liberty Light Political
The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.
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Cost Invaders Justice

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