Capital Quote by Benjamin Tucker

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

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

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

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

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 that there…

— 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 that its…

— 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