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In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination ...more

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. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

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In the first place, it would efface from everybody’sconscience the distinction between justice and injustice.No society can exist unless the laws are ...more

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Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, the...more

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There is in all of us a strong disposition to regard what is lawful as legitimate, so much so that many falsely derive all justice from law. It is suf...more

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The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all...more

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

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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes ...more

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The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

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Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the law least interf...more

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The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

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There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

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Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle als...more

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Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail...more

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The social organs are constituted so as to enable them to develop harmoniously in the grand air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Aw...more