The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

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

Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force - for the same reason - cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.

Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all . . . . It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain

The balance of trade is an article of faith.