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Benjamin Tucker Quotes

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.
Benjamin Tucker

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Date of Birth:
April 17, 1854
Date of Death:
June 22, 1939
Nationality:
American
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We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.
Benjamin Tucker

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

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

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

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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