Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.

Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.

The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice.

Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism.

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

There is in all of a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are "just" because the law makes them so.