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- Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of…
- 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…
- ...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that…
- But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us,…
- It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to secure…
- Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.
- When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what…
- The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from…
- The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are man-made and are…
- It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of…
- Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the…
- Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.
- There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist…
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