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Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.

Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.

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

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

Benjamin Tucker
Exercise, Two, Contradiction
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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

Benjamin Tucker
Equality, Liberty, Use

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

Benjamin Tucker
Offensive, Murder, Term
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits.

Benjamin Tucker
Acceptance, Errors, Lexicographer
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

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

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

Benjamin Tucker
Drama, Imagination, Liberty

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

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

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

Benjamin Tucker
Ignorance, Punishment, May
"Anarchism and Capital Punishment" by Benjamin Tucker, 1926.

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
Pain, Atheism, Coercion

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

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

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