No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).

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

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works

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?

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?

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