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Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement.

Benjamin Tucker

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
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 right of the majority is absolute.
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Absolutes Majority
Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty’s work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.
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Competition Opportunity 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 exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
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Contradiction Exercise Two
The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
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Anarchy Evil Unnecessary
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
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
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
Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is the mother of order; but, as a matter of definition, liberty is not order nor is Anarchism co-operation.
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Liberty Mother Order
This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.
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Anarchy Definitions Government
Peace 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.
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Condition Extreme Liberty Necessity Peace Strength
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
For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
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Between Country House Reason
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

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