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“The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.”

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Benjamin Tucker

Benjamin Tucker was an American anarchist, writer, and editor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known for his contributions to individualist anarchism, advocating for a stateless, anarchist society through education, cooperation, and voluntary exchange. more

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“Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.”

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“Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end of that social organization which will arise, not out of the ruins of government, but out of the transformation of government into voluntary association for defence.”

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“On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.”

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