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.
Benjamin Tucker

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Benjamin Tucker

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.
Benjamin Tucker

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

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
Benjamin Tucker

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