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

Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

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

It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they never realize that they do not eliminate these consequences but merely pass them along to other people? The result is one injustice the more and one moral the less.

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

The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.

They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.