Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.

If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.

They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.

When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.

Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.