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

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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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. - Benjamin Tucker

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

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free. - Benjamin Tucker