Taking Five and Returning Four is not Giving

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

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.

The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.