This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.
Benjamin TuckerAggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
Benjamin TuckerThe main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.
Benjamin Tucker