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

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

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

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

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.

The plans differ; the planners are all alike.

The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property.