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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 ... or by all other men upon one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/he-who-attempts-to-control-another-is-a-governor-an-aggressor-an/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/)

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> [Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/aggression-is-simply-another-name-for-government-aggression-invasion/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/)

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## More by Benjamin Tucker

> [The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/the-claim-of-the-state-socialists-however-that-this-right-would-not/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/)

> [The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/the-shortest-way-to-change-a-radical-into-a-conservative-a-liberal/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/)

> [The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/the-anarchists-are-simply-unterrified-jeffersonian-democrats-they/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/socialism-on-the-contrary-extends-its-function-to-the-description-of/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/)

> [We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/we-are-here-on-earth-not-one-of-us-has-any-right-to-the-earth/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/)

> [The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/the-cost-of-justice-can-be-justly-paid-only-by-the-invader/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/)

> [For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/for-just-as-it-has-been-said-that-there-is-no-half-way-house-between/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/)

> [Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/thus-the-same-blow-that-strikes-interest-down-will-send-wages-up/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/)

> [There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape … have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/there-are-some-troubles-from-which-mankind-can-never-escape-have/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/)

> [The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/the-government-is-a-tyrant-living-by-theft-and-therefore-has-no/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/)

> [Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/capitalism-is-at-least-tolerable-which-cannot-be-said-of-socialism-or/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/)

> [This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/this-then-is-the-anarchistic-definition-of-government-the-subjection/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 '…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/therefore-coercion-of-the-non-invasive-when-justifiable-at-all-is-to/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/)

> [Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/laissez-faire-was-very-good-sauce-for-the-goose-labor-but-was-very/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/anarchism-is-for-liberty-and-neither-for-nor-against-anything-else/)

[Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/)

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