Benjamin Tucker

“The shortest way to change a law is to break it.”

“The four great monopolies are the money monopoly, the land monopoly, the tariff monopoly, and the patent monopoly.”

“Of all the monopolists, the arch-monopolist is the State.”

“If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny.”

“To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.”

“Liberty is the mother, not the daughter, of order.”

“Aggression is simply another name for government.”

“Anarchism is the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.”

“Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity must be universal, and competition must be free.”

“The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.”

“Liberty, to be effective, must find its first application in the realm of economics.”

“The State is a bandit, and its purpose is to protect the privileged few in their exploitation of the many.”

“What is Anarchism? It is the negation of authority in all its forms.”

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

“Every man has a natural right to claim the protection of his own interests, and to choose his own method of protecting them.”

“There are two Socialisms. One is communistic, the other solidaritarian. One is dictatorial, the other libertarian.”