Competition Is Merely The Absence Of Oppression.

There Is Only One Difference Between A Bad Economist And A Good One: The Bad Economist Confines Himself To The Visible Effect; The Good Economist Takes Into Account Both The Effect That Can Be Seen And Those Effects That Must Be Foreseen.

Men Naturally Rebel Against The Injustice Of Which They Are Victims. Thus, When Plunder Is Organized By Law For The Profit Of Those Who Make The Law, All The Plundered Classes Try Somehow To Enter, By Peaceful Or Revolutionary Means, Into The Making Of Laws. According To Their Degree Of Enlightenment, These Plundered Classes May Propose One Of Two Entirely Different Purposes When They Attempt To Attain Political Power: Either They May Wish To Stop Lawful Plunder, Or They May Wish To Share In It.

Property Does Not Exist Because There Are Laws, But Laws Exist Because There Is Property.

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 Are Always Good? Do Not The Legislators And Their Appointed Agents Also Belong To The Human Race? Or Do They Believe That They Themselves Are Made Of A Finer Clay Than The Rest Of Mankind?

The Politician Attempts To Remedy The Evil By Increasing The Very Thing That Caused The Evil In The First Place: Legal Plunder.