Benjamin Tucker Quotes

Benjamin Tucker (American - Activist)

 

April 17, 1854 - June 22, 1939

 

ⓒ wikipedia

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Aggression is simply another name for government.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

 

 

 

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.