“I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.”

—  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

Individual Liberty (1926), Anarchism and Capital Punishment

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American journalist and anarchist 1854–1939

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