If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
Benjamin Tucker
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To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.
The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
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