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 many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.

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 precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

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.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

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

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.