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It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.

Benjamin Tucker

The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that ‘the best government is that which governs least,’ and that which governs least is no government at all.
BENJAMIN TUCKER

Anarchy Believe Government
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
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Privilege Slavery Voting
I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade.
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Amount Belief Compatible Liberty
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 student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.
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Drama Imagination Liberty
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
Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable…
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Bully Lying Voting
And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.
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Band People Principles
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
An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.
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Anarchy Definitions Government
But which is the State’s essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
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Aquarium Care Essential
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
Anarchism may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished….. Nor does the Anarchistic scheme furnish any code of morals to be imposed upon the individual. “
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Business Law Men Mind Own
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, – at least in theory.
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Ignorance May Punishment
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
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Essence Government Transcendentalism
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

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