When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen. Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse.

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.

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

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

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

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