Benjamin Tucker Quotes about Liberty

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

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

Men, Insult To Injury, Liberty

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

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".

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

Benjamin Tucker

War, Liberty, Authority

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1970). “Liberty”

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

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