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

The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.

Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.

If goods don't cross borders, armies will.

The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.