Benjamin Tucker

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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

— Benjamin Tucker

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Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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

— Benjamin Tucker

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

— Benjamin Tucker

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

— Benjamin Tucker

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The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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

— Benjamin Tucker

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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 allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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