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1. "Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism." ~ Benjamin Tucker
2. "Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all." ~ Benjamin Tucker
3. "But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care." ~ Benjamin Tucker
4. "The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction." ~ Benjamin Tucker
5. "To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury." ~ Benjamin Tucker
6. "We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth." ~ Benjamin Tucker
7. "The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary." ~ Benjamin Tucker
8. "And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area." ~ Benjamin Tucker
9. "But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder." ~ Benjamin Tucker
10. "Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act." ~ Benjamin Tucker
11. "Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth." ~ Benjamin Tucker
12. "The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader." ~ Benjamin Tucker
13. "The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control." ~ Benjamin Tucker
14. "The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice." ~ Benjamin Tucker
15. "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." ~ Benjamin Tucker
16. "First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice." ~ Benjamin Tucker
17. "For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism." ~ Benjamin Tucker
18. "I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified." ~ Benjamin Tucker
19. "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." ~ Benjamin Tucker
20. "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." ~ Benjamin Tucker
21. "Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital." ~ Benjamin Tucker
22. "Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats." ~ Benjamin Tucker
23. "Aggression is simply another name for government." ~ Benjamin Tucker
24. "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." ~ Benjamin Tucker

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