Benjamin Tucker

“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 State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.”

“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 associations, and that the State should be abolished.”

“The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.”

“Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.”

“But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.”

“Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.”

“The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.”

“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 private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.”

“Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.”

“Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.”

“Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.”

“Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.”

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