Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band… — 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
