Benjamin Tucker Quotes

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

Taxation Is Robbery Tax--Root of all Evil

Liberty in America means the power to flog slaves, and to work them for nothing.

Those who exercise power always arrange matters so as to give their tyranny the appearance of justice.

As men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.

If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.

O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

Might was the measure of right.

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

It is not possible that one man can convert another into a piece of property, thus at once annihilating all his personal rights, without the most flagrant injustice and usurpation.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.