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

When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

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?

[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

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

The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.

Competition is merely the absence of oppression.