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The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.

Benjamin Tucker

It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest on money through the beneficent influence of competition.
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Banking Competition Wages
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
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
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
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
The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.
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Cost Invaders Justice
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
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Equality Liberty Use
Capital will be set free, business will flourish, new enterprises will start, labor will be in demand, and gradually the wages of labor will rise to a level with its product.
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Business Capital Demand Labor Product
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
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
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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Always Bless Choice Invade Liberty
But which is the State’s essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
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Aquarium Care Essential
He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man … or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
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Democracy Invasion Men
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 essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
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Essence Government Transcendentalism
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
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Essence Men Names

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