The Law

As I have said elsewhere, it is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

for it invites reprisals; and if you do not take care, the exceptional case will extend, multiply, and become systematic. No doubt the party benefited will exclaim loudly; he will assert his acquired rights. He will say that the State is bound to protect and encourage his industry; he will plead that it is a good thing for the State to be enriched, that it may spend the more, and thus shower down salaries upon the poor workmen. Take care not to listen to this sophistry, for it is just by the systematizing of these arguments that legal plunder becomes systematized

Life — physical, intellectual, and moral life.

apart from all demagogue subtlety

Essays on Political Economy

For, under such an administration, every one would feel that he possessed all the fullness, as well as all the responsibility of his existence.

He was opposed to learning Latin and reading the works of the famous Latin authors because, in his view, Roman civilization was based on slavery and the glorification of war and the state; commerce, individual rights, and natural law were ignored or downplayed.

The state is the great fiction by which everyone endeavors to live at the expense of everyone else.”12

Now socialism, thus defined, and forming a doctrinal body, what other war would you make against it than a war of doctrine?

tariffs, protection, perquisites, gratuities, encouragements, progressive taxation, gratuitous instruction, right to labor, right to profit, right to wages, right to assistance, right to instruments of labor, gratuity of credit, etc.