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Men Quotes by Benjamin Tucker
- The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with…
- There is no freedom that I would grant to any man that I would refuse to woman, and there is no freedom that I would…
- 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…
- He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is…
- Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.
- 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…
- 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…
- To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
- In times past...it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and I long ago…
- This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary…
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