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If goods don't cross borders, armies will.
Taking Five and Returning Four is not Giving
The balance of trade is an article of faith.
The plans differ; the planners are all alike.
Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches.
When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
Competition is merely the absence of oppression.
The solution of the social problem is in liberty.
The profit of the one is the profit of the other.
Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.
If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.
Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice.
It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense
Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.
The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.
Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.
Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.
By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.
Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.
The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.
Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.
When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.
In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.
Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.
Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.
Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.
The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.
If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.
Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.
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.
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.
The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for other jobs.
[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.