But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us, not free association. We repudiate forced fraternity, not true fraternity. We repudiate the artificial unity that does nothing more than deprive persons of individual responsibility. We do not repudiate the natural unity of mankind under Providence.

It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety.

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.

When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.

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

Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.