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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 moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
BENJAMIN TUCKER

Justice Moments Victim
But which is the State’s essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
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Aquarium Care Essential
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
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
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
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Essence Government Transcendentalism
Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.
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Blow Strikes Wages
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.
BENJAMIN TUCKER

Anarchy Law Men Possible
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
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
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.
BENJAMIN TUCKER

Liberty May Men
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
War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
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Authority Liberty War
The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
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Anarchy Evil Unnecessary
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
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Equality Liberty Use
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
The right of the majority is absolute.
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Absolutes Majority

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