Benjamin Tucker Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

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

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Insult To Injury, Liberty

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. 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. Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement. 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

  School, Rome, Names

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays”, Ralph Myles Pub

• Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is the mother of order; but, as a matter of definition, liberty is not order nor is Anarchism co-operation. I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Mother, Order, Liberty

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

• 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

  School, Names, Two

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays”, Ralph Myles Pub

• It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

  Benjamin Tucker

  War, Passive Resistance, Peaceful

• There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape .... have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow from authority .... As a choice of blessings, liberty is the greater; as a choice of evils, liberty is the smaller. Then liberty always says the Anarchist. No use of force except against the invader.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Blessing, Evil, Perfection

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

  Benjamin Tucker

  Drama, Imagination, Liberty

• We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Light, Political, Liberty

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”

• War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

  Benjamin Tucker

  War, Liberty, Authority

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1970). “Liberty”

• Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Government, Liberty, Purpose

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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

  Benjamin Tucker

  Equality, Liberty, Use

• The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Perfection, Liberty, Anarchist

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

• If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Liberty, May

  "Instead of a Book".

• Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.

  Benjamin Tucker

  War, Opportunity, Competition

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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