It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was perhaps the most vigorous hater of Communism that ever lived on this planet. But the apparent inconsistency vanishes… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
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. Whoso knows what these… — 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
