If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

The plans differ; the planners are all alike.

Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.

Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

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

Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the eye at a first glance, while the other becomes perceptible only to close investigation.