Benjamin Tucker Anarchy Quotations

The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law ...

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will...

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.