When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.

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 law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

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

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.