In times past. . . it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to … - Benjamin Tucker

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A mutual friend, Benjamin Rush, brought [Tomas Jefferson and John Adams] together in 1812, and they went on to exchange letters for the rest of their lives. But in their correspondence they tended to avoid the most controversial issues, such as slavery.

Benjamin Tucker

In times past. . . it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and I long ago sloughed it off. Man's only right to land is his might over it. If his neighbor is mightier than he and takes the land from him, then the land is his neighbor's, until the latter is dispossessed by one mightier still.

Latter, Long Ago, Men, Neighbor, Past, Sloughed

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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.

Liberty, May, Men, Neighbor, Purse, Worth

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

Communism, Said, Socialism, Tolerable

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

Attempt, Control, Essence, Government, Transcendentalism

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.

Different, Government, Include, Organization, Repudiate, Ruins

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

Earth, Right