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To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

Benjamin Tucker

But which is the State’s essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
BENJAMIN TUCKER

Aquarium Care Essential
Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.
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Genocide Hate Men
We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
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Liberty Light Political
Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ‘ invasion, but a minimum of pain.
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Atheism Coercion Pain
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
Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
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Kings Leader Wings
The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that ‘the best government is that which governs least,’ and that which governs least is no government at all.
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Anarchy Believe Government
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
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.
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Government Liberty Purpose
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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Absolute Manner Men Modern Monarch Ordinary
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
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
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
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
Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.
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Blow Strikes Wages
Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable…
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Bully Lying Voting

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