But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.

[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.

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

The solution of the social problem is in liberty.

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

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