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Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

Benjamin Tucker

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
If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.
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Liberty May Men
The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.
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Cost Invaders Justice
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
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Contradiction Exercise Two
Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
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Anarchist Democrat
The right of the majority is absolute.
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Absolutes Majority
In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.
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Children Maintenance School
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
Give woman equality with man, by all means; but do it by taking power from man, not giving it to woman.
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Equality Mean Power Taking Women
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 main question … is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.
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Anarchy Law Men Possible
But which is the State’s essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
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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
War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
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Authority Liberty 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
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

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

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