Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
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… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape … have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will... — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
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