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Liberty Quotes by Benjamin Tucker
- We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
- War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
- 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…
- It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it.…
- There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape .... have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results…
- The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.
- The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one…
- The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
- If I go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men…
- The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one…
- To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
- Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
- Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.
- The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be…
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- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton