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

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.

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

As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose - that it may violate property instead of protecting it - then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder.

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

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

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.