Benjamin Tucker Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.”

“One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.”

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

“Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.”

“Aggression is simply another name for government.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”