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“Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.” quote by Benjamin Tucker — Download Open image

“Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.”

Benjamin Tucker

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

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

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

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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…

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