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?

The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.

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.

The balance of trade is an article of faith.

The people who, during the election, were so wise, so moral, so perfect, now have no tendencies whatever; or if they have any, they are tendencies that lead downward to degradation. . . . If people are as incapable, as immoral, and as ignorant as the politicians indicate, then why is the right of these same people to vote defended with such passionate insistence?

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 to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.

Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.