Benjamin Tucker

The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the…

— Benjamin Tucker

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to…

— Benjamin Tucker

The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs…

— Benjamin Tucker

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means…

— Benjamin Tucker

We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

— Benjamin Tucker

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

— 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…

— Benjamin Tucker

Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.

— Benjamin Tucker

There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape .... have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say…

— Benjamin Tucker

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.

— Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

— Benjamin Tucker

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will...

— 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…

— Benjamin Tucker

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

— 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…

— Benjamin Tucker

If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will…

— Benjamin Tucker

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

— Benjamin Tucker

The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of…

— Benjamin Tucker

In times past...it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and…

— Benjamin Tucker

The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.

— Benjamin Tucker

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act,…

— Benjamin Tucker

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.

— Benjamin Tucker

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief…

— Benjamin Tucker

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

— Benjamin Tucker

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

— Benjamin Tucker