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

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed before….

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..

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 understand….

The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the ….

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

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

The real cost of the State is the prosperity we do not see, the jobs that don’t exist, the technologies to which we do not have access, the businesse….

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 al….

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at th….

If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers ar….

Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and i….

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

Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we ….

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….

People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them..

Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder i….

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

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..

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful ….

We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists sa….