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Law and Charity Are Not the Same.

Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

Firsts Quotes

And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.

Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that is not a violation of property rights. If you cannot do so, then you must agree that the law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

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.

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life – physical, intellectual, and moral life.

The balance of trade is an article of faith.

As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose – that it may violate property instead of protecting it – then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder.

It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.

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

Why don’t you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

It’s always tempting to do good at someone else’s expense.

They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.

If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing.

When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a universal, incontestable fact, resulting from the nature of man, and not an adverse judgment, as would be the word selfishness.

Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.

Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one’s labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one’s faculties, according to one’s own understanding, without the state intervening otherwise than by its protective action; this is what is meant by liberty.

There is in all of a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are “just” because the law makes them so.

Strong Quotes

Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.

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

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties – liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.

The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it would try to force them to be self-sacrificing.

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.

Taking Five and Returning Four is not Giving.

The solution of the social problem is in liberty.

Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

Competition is merely the absence of oppression.

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice...

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?

Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don’t you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches.

The plans differ; the planners are all alike...

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

Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

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

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

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

If goods don’t cross borders, armies will.

The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.

Greed Quotes

When successful, we would not have to thank the state for our success. And, conversely, when unsuccessful, we would no more think of blaming the state for our misfortune than would the farmers blame the state because of hail or frost.

The law Quotes

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