--- title: "Best Benjamin Tucker Quotes" description: "Benjamin Ricketson Tucker was an American individualist anarchist and self-identified socialist. Tucker was the editor and publisher of the American ind..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b152/author-benjamin-tucker-9951.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b152/author-benjamin-tucker-9951.jpg) # Benjamin Tucker (1762–1829) **69** quotes in **408** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Benjamin Ricketson Tucker was an American individualist anarchist and self-identified socialist. Tucker was the editor and publisher of the American individualist anarchist periodical Liberty (1881–1908). ## Quick Facts About Benjamin Tucker Born January 1, 1762 Died January 1, 1829 Notable works Kreutzer Sonata ## About Benjamin Tucker Benjamin Ricketson Tucker was an American individualist anarchist and self-identified socialist. Tucker was the editor and publisher of the American individualist anarchist periodical Liberty (1881–1908). Tucker described his form of anarchism as "consistent Manchesterism" and "unterrified Jeffersonianism". ## Quotes by Benjamin Tucker · Page 2 > [Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/commanded-love-of-all-men-indiscriminately-is-an-obliteration-of/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Distinction](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/distinction/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb8/benjamin-tucker-9951_distinction_commanded-love-of-all-men-indiscriminate_2112978.png) > [To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/to-force-a-man-to-pay-for-the-violation-of-his-own-liberty-is-indeed/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Force](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/force/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7be/benjamin-tucker-9951_force_to-force-a-man-to-pay-for-the-violation_3152220.png) > [The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/the-student-of-liberty-must-constantly-endeavor-to-disassociate-his/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Anarchy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/benjamin-tucker-9951_anarchy_the-student-of-liberty-must-constantly-e_698205.png) > [This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/this-then-is-the-anarchistic-definition-of-government-the-subjection/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Anarchy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cde/benjamin-tucker-9951_anarchy_this-then-is-the-anarchistic-definition_394152.png) > [Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/such-security-is-equal-liberty-but-it-is-not-necessarily-equality-in/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Cybersecurity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cybersecurity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f53/benjamin-tucker-9951_cybersecurity_such-security-is-equal-liberty-but-it-is_2703868.png) > [The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/the-two-principles-referred-to-are-authority-and-liberty-and-the/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Anarchism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c35/benjamin-tucker-9951_anarchism_the-two-principles-referred-to-are-autho_1153716.png) > [The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/the-anarchists-answer-that-the-abolition-of-the-state-will-leave-in/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Abolition](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abolition/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b50/benjamin-tucker-9951_abolition_the-anarchists-answer-that-the-abolition_2024780.png) > [If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/if-i-can-go-through-life-free-and-rich-i-shall-not-cry-because-my/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Authority](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/authority/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a72/benjamin-tucker-9951_authority_if-i-can-go-through-life-free-and-rich-i_491881.jpg) > [He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/he-who-attempts-to-control-another-is-a-governor-an-aggressor-an/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Aggressor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aggressor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/282/benjamin-tucker-9951_aggressor_he-who-attempts-to-control-another-is-a_1611195.jpg) > [The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/the-makers-of-dictionaries-are-dependent-upon-specialists-for-their/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Acceptance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acceptance/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe6/benjamin-tucker-9951_acceptance_the-makers-of-dictionaries-are-dependent_3045974.jpg) > [The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/the-right-of-such-control-is-already-admitted-by-the-state-socialists/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Admitted](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/admitted/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e15/benjamin-tucker-9951_admitted_the-right-of-such-control-is-already-adm_1726339.png) > [The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/the-anarchists-never-have-claimed-that-liberty-will-bring-perfection/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Anarchist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchist/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d98/benjamin-tucker-9951_anarchist_the-anarchists-never-have-claimed-that-l_2252840.png) > [Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/marx-as-we-have-seen-solved-it-by-declaring-capital-to-be-a-different/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Benefits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/benefits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca3/benjamin-tucker-9951_benefits_marx-as-we-have-seen-solved-it-by-declar_2143238.png) > [There is no freedom that I would grant to any man that I would refuse to woman, and there is no freedom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/there-is-no-freedom-that-i-would-grant-to-any-man-that-i-would-refuse/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Anarchy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/147/benjamin-tucker-9951_anarchy_there-is-no-freedom-that-i-would-grant-t_2261914.jpg) > [In times past...it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/in-times-past-it-was-my-habit-to-talk-glibly-of-the-right-of-man-to/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Bad habit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bad-habit/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f12/benjamin-tucker-9951_bad-habit_in-times-past-it-was-my-habit-to-talk-gl_578145.png) > [Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/aggression-is-simply-another-name-for-government-aggression-invasion/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Absolutes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absolutes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/benjamin-tucker-9951_absolutes_aggression-is-simply-another-name-for-go_1865258.png) > [The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/the-moment-one-abandons-the-idea-that-he-was-born-to-discover-what-is/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Abandon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abandon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfa/benjamin-tucker-9951_abandon_the-moment-one-abandons-the-idea-that-he_524894.png) > [If I go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/if-i-go-through-life-free-and-rich-i-shall-not-cry-because-my/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Authority](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/authority/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/208/benjamin-tucker-9951_authority_if-i-go-through-life-free-and-rich-i-sha_3071602.png) > [The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/the-anarchists-are-simply-unterrified-jeffersonian-democrats-they/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Anarchism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f28/benjamin-tucker-9951_anarchism_the-anarchists-are-simply-unterrified-je_80620.png) > [Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/defence-was-an-afterthought-prompted-by-necessity-and-its/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Defence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/defence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74e/benjamin-tucker-9951_defence_defence-was-an-afterthought-prompted-by_1499881.png) > [For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/for-just-as-it-has-been-said-that-there-is-no-half-way-house-between/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Anarchism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/923/benjamin-tucker-9951_anarchism_for-just-as-it-has-been-said-that-there_149690.png) > [One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/one-thing-however-is-sure-that-in-all-cases-the-effort-should-be-to/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Cases](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cases/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/831/benjamin-tucker-9951_cases_one-thing-however-is-sure-that-in-all-ca_2299649.png) > [It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/it-is-foolish-in-the-extreme-not-only-to-resort-to-force-before/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Antiwar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiwar/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aed/benjamin-tucker-9951_antiwar_it-is-foolish-in-the-extreme-not-only-to_2339997.png) > [Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/government-is-the-assumption-of-authority-over-a-given-area-and-all/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Areas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/areas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d09/benjamin-tucker-9951_areas_government-is-the-assumption-of-authorit_1135781.png) > [Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/monopoly-and-privilege-must-be-destroyed-opportunity-afforded-and/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Authority](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/authority/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db2/benjamin-tucker-9951_authority_monopoly-and-privilege-must-be-destroyed_2586624.png) > [The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/the-claim-of-the-state-socialists-however-that-this-right-would-not/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Borne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/borne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f42/benjamin-tucker-9951_borne_the-claim-of-the-state-socialists-howeve_24621.png) > [And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/and-this-is-the-anarchistic-definition-of-the-state-the-embodiment-of/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Assuming](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/assuming/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c87/benjamin-tucker-9951_assuming_and-this-is-the-anarchistic-definition-o_1605718.jpg) > [In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/in-the-matter-of-the-maintenance-and-rearing-of-children-the/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Anarchist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchist/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/570/benjamin-tucker-9951_anarchist_in-the-matter-of-the-maintenance-and-rea_1038270.png) > [Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-tucker/almost-the-only-persons-who-may-be-said-to-comprehend-even/) [Benjamin Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-tucker/) [Capitalism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/capitalism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b1/benjamin-tucker-9951_capitalism_almost-the-only-persons-who-may-be-said_800642.png) ## Benjamin Tucker by topic [Liberty (16)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/liberty/benjamin-tucker/) [States (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/states/benjamin-tucker/) [Anarchy (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchy/benjamin-tucker/) [Politics (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/benjamin-tucker/) [Men (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/benjamin-tucker/) [Government (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/government/benjamin-tucker/) [Freedom 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