Benjamin Tucker

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

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

The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

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.

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

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.

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