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Benjamin Tucker

We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

– Benjamin Tucker

Benjamin Tucker

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.

– Benjamin Tucker

Benjamin Tucker

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.

– Benjamin Tucker

Benjamin Tucker

The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

– Benjamin Tucker

Benjamin Tucker

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

– Benjamin Tucker

Benjamin Tucker

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

– Benjamin Tucker

Benjamin Tucker

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 Tucker

Benjamin Tucker

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.

– Benjamin Tucker

Benjamin Tucker

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.

– Benjamin Tucker

Benjamin Tucker

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

– Benjamin Tucker

Benjamin Tucker

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.

– Benjamin Tucker

Benjamin Tucker

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

– Benjamin Tucker

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