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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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.
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In times past…it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and I long ago sloughed it off.
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He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man,
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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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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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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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But which is the State’s essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
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The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
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The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
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Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
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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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Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement.
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We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
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The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
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Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.
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