Anarchism may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished… Nor does the Anarchistic scheme furnish any code of morals to be… — 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 results are vastly preferable to those that follow from authority … As a choice of blessings, liberty is the greater; as a choice of evils, liberty is the smaller. Then liberty always says the Anarchist. No… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share
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
