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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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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

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The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

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The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

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The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of ot...more

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Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes t...more

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Have you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James Goodfellow, when his careless son has happened to break a pane of glass? If you have b...more

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I can never look at these apparent contradictions between the great laws of nature without a feeling of physical uneasiness which amounts to suffering...more

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We need not be surprised at this. On a wrong road, inconsistency is inevitable; if it were not so, mankind would be sacrificed. A false principle neve...more

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But things have been so admirably arranged by the Divine inventor of social order that in this, as in everything else, political economy and morality,...more