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.

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

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

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

Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even the thought of revolution, of insurrection, of the slightest uprising could arise against a government whose organized force was confined only to suppressing injustice.

Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches.

If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people, to help them adjust to changing conditions, we will, of course, agree. This is done now; we desire that it be done better. There is however, a point on this road that must not be passed; it is the point where governmental foresight would step in to replace individual foresight and thus destroy it.