By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.

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.

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

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.

Taking Five and Returning Four is not Giving

People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.

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.