War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
BENJAMIN TUCKERWar and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
BENJAMIN TUCKERAggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
BENJAMIN TUCKERAnarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
BENJAMIN TUCKERBut the apparent inconsistency vanishes when you read his book and find that by property he means simply legally privileged wealth or the power of usury, and not at all the possession by the labourer of his products.
BENJAMIN TUCKERMind 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.
BENJAMIN TUCKERIt is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions.
BENJAMIN TUCKERWe are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
BENJAMIN TUCKERThe moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
BENJAMIN TUCKERAggression is simply another name for government.
BENJAMIN TUCKERCapital 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.
BENJAMIN TUCKERThe essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
BENJAMIN TUCKERThe State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
BENJAMIN TUCKERPeace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.
BENJAMIN TUCKERAfter 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.
BENJAMIN TUCKERHe 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.
BENJAMIN TUCKERWe are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
BENJAMIN TUCKER