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- No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this…
- By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.
- This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder…
- We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists…
- 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…
- The plans differ; the planners are all alike...
- And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun:…
- There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.
- Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.
- Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make…
- Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.
- In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of…
- Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
- Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses,…
- The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis,…
- The real cost of the State is the prosperity we do not see, the jobs that don’t exist, the technologies to which we do not…
- Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can…
- And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties -…
- The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of…
- And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is…
- Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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