Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
Benjamin TuckerThe makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits.
Benjamin TuckerGovernment 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 TuckerThis, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.
Benjamin Tucker