Aggression is simply another name for government.
- Benjamin Tucker Quote

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 Quote

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
- Benjamin Tucker Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Benjamin Tucker Quote

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.
- Benjamin Tucker Quote

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.
- Benjamin Tucker Quote

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

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
- Benjamin Tucker Quote

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 Quote

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

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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