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“The practice of usury is a sacred and inviolable prerogative of individuals who choose to contract for its payment.” - Benjamin Tucker (the quotes that follow here are also Tucker’s words)
“If the cost principle of value cannot be realized otherwise than by compulsion, then it had better not be realized. For my part, I do not believe that it is possible or highly important to realize it absolutely and completely.”
“If [Auberon Herbert] gives answers which he can show to be sound, and which demonstrate that interest can persist where free competition prevails, he will close my mouth forever.”
“The right to do a thing and the abstract right of a thing involve two essentially different principles. For instance, we have defended the right of individuals to make contracts stipulating the payment of usury, and should strike at the very essence of Liberty if we did not...”
“Liberty, therefore, must defend the right of individuals to make contracts involving usury, rum, marriage, prostitution, and many other things which it believes to be wrong in principle and opposed to human well-being. The right to do wrong involves the essence of all rights.”
“To say that the sovereignty of the indvdual is conditiond by Liberty is simply anthr way of saying that it is conditioned by itself. To cndtion it by the cost prncple is eqvlent to institting the cost principle by authrity,—an attempted fusion of Anarchism w/ State Socialism...”
