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State Quotes by Benjamin Tucker
- The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
- If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
- 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…
- 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…
- And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming…
- The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a…
- In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep…
- 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…
- 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 is…
- But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
- The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and…
- 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…
- 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…
- Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the…
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