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The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.


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

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



The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.



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

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



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

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



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.

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.



The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.



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.

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.



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?

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?



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

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



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

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





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When I got started again, I drove slower and felt smaller. I think it does us all good to get looked at like that now and then by a wild animal.

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All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.

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