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Government Quotes by Benjamin Tucker
- 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…
- Aggression is simply another name for government.
- The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no…
- An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.
- If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
- Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He…
- This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will...
- Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end…
- First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of…
- The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
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