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

Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it try to force them to be self-sacrificing.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.

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

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