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Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

— Benjamin Tucker State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ (1888)

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Education is a slow process, and may not come too quickly. Anarchists who endeavor to hasten it by joining in the propaganda of State Socialism or revolution make a sad mistake indeed.

As a general rule, the better people are, the more Anarchists and Socialists will be found among them.

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The Anarchists believe in civil society; only they insist that the freedom of civil society shall be complete instead of partial.

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There would be but one article in the constitution of a State Socialistic country: “The right of the majority is absolute.”

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