Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works

Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.

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?