Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it try to force them to be self-sacrificing.

Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they never realize that they do not eliminate these consequences but merely pass them along to other people? The result is one injustice the more and one moral the less.

If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

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 takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.