“The Anarchists believe in the State; only they insist that the greater part, if not all, of the necessity for its existence is the result of an artificial limitation of the freedom of civil society, and that the completion of industrial freedom may one day so harmonize individuals that it will no longer be necessary to provide a guarantee of political freedom.”

— Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

Individual Liberty (1926), Liberty and Politics

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American journalist and anarchist 1854–1939

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