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This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.

Benjamin Tucker

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
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Authority Liberty War
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.
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Drama Imagination Liberty
The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
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Anarchy Evil Unnecessary
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
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Contradiction Exercise Two
It 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.
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Passive Peaceful Resistance War
The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
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Men Power Tyrant
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
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
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Injury Insult Liberty Men
We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
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Any Earth Right
We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
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Liberty Light Political
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
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Essence Government Transcendentalism
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
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
One thing, however, is sure, – that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.
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Effort Justice Real
It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that ‘property is robbery’ to learn that he was perhaps the most vigorous hater of Communism that ever lived on this planet.
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This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.

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