Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us, not free association. We repudiate forced fraternity, not true fraternity. We repudiate the artificial unity that does nothing more than deprive persons of individual responsibility. We do not repudiate the natural unity of mankind under Providence.

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.

Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?