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[Socialists claim] that we reject fraternity, solidarity, organization, and association; and they brand us with the name of individualists. We can assure them that what we repudiate is not natural organization, but forced organization. It is not free association, but…

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Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its…

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The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

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The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for…

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If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual,…

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Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the…

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Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.

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Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

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Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation. This is the seductive lure of…

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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

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There is in all of a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons…

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I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or economical; whether it affects well-being, morality, equality, right, justice, progress, responsibility, property, labor, exchange, capital, wages, taxes, population, credit, or Government; at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the…

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