Benjamin Tucker Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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 or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.”

“Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.”

“But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.”

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

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

“We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”