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

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

If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing.

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.

Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches.

It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.

The plans differ; the planners are all alike.