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• Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of…
• Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty,…
• Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
• The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
• Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
• They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers…
• Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
• In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does…
• When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
• Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to…
• What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
• Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes…

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