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

Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces?

No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law, two evils of which one is as great as the other, and between which it is difficult to choose.

Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches.

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

The people who, during the election, were so wise, so moral, so perfect, now have no tendencies whatever; or if they have any, they are tendencies that lead downward to degradation. . . . If people are as incapable, as immoral, and as ignorant as the politicians indicate, then why is the right of these same people to vote defended with such passionate insistence?

People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.