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The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

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
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
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Equality Liberty Use
The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.
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Answers Compulsory Leave May Mean
Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.
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Blow Strikes Wages
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
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
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
But which is the State’s essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
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Aquarium Care Essential
Man’s only right to land is his might over it. If his neighbor is mightier than he and takes the land from him, then the land is his neighbor’s, until the latter is dispossessed by one mightier still.
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Disoppessed Land Man Neighbour
Aggression is simply another name for government.
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Aggression Government Names
War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
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Authority Liberty War
It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.
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Beyond Bullet More Representative
The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
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Justice Moments Victim
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
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
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

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

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