Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable. … - Benjamin Tucker

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Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

Benjamin Tucker

Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable. . . It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.

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If I 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. Authority may (and may not) make all men equally rich in purse; it certainly will make them equally poor in all that makes life best worth living.

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Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

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The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

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Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end of that social organization which will arise, not out of the ruins of government, but out of the transformation of government into voluntary association for defence.

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We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

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