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.
BENJAMIN TUCKERThe Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
More Benjamin Tucker Quotes
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It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.
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The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.
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The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
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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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Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable…
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We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
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War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
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Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.
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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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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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Mind your own business” is its own moral law. Interference with another’s business is a crime and the only crime, and as such may properly be resisted.
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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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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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Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
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The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
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