It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom … - Benjamin Tucker

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I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.

Benjamin Tucker

It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest on money through the beneficent influence of competition. Capital will be set free, business will flourish, new enterprises will start, labor will be in demand, and gradually the wages of labor will rise to a level with its product.

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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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