Benjamin TuckerThinkers

Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is the mother of order; but, as a matter of definition, liberty is not order nor is Anarchism co-operation. I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade.

Anarchism is not a repudiation of the right of ownership. It is a form of social organization that will arise, not out of the ruins of government, but out of the transformation of government into voluntary association for defence.

The Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

The Anarchist is simply an unterrified Jeffersonian Democrat. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.