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Benjamin Tucker

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
BENJAMIN TUCKER

Authority Liberty War
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
The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
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Justice Moments Victim
Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ‘ invasion, but a minimum of pain.
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Atheism Coercion Pain
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
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.
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Anarchy Believe Government
It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest on money through the beneficent influence of competition.
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Banking Competition Wages
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
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
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Essence Government Transcendentalism
Aggression is simply another name for government.
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Aggression Government Names
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
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Contradiction Exercise Two
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.
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Government Liberty Purpose
Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
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Anarchist Democrat
The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
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Anarchy Evil Unnecessary
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
Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.
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Blow Strikes Wages

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