For As Labor Cannot Produce Without The

Blockading Squadrons Are A Means Whereby Nations Seek To Prevent Their Enemies From Trading; Protective Tariffs Are A Means Whereby Nations Attempt To Prevent Their Own People From Trading. What Protectionism Teaches Us, Is To Do To Ourselves In Time Of Peace What Enemies Seek To Do To Us In Time Of War.

Discovery Can Give No Right Of Ownership, For Whatever Is Discovered Must Have Been Already Here To Be Discovered. If A Man Makes A Wheelbarrow, Or A Book, Or A Picture, He Has A Moral Right To That Particular Wheelbarrow, Or Book, Or Picture, But No Right To Ask That Others Be Prevented From Making Similar Things. Such A Prohibition, Though Given For The Purpose Of Stimulating Discovery And Invention, Really In The Long Run Operates As A Check Upon Them.

No Theory Is Too False, No Fable Too Absurd, No Superstition Too Degrading For Acceptance When It Has Become Embedded In Common Belief. Men Will Submit Themselves To Torture And To Death, Mothers Will Immolate [burn] Their Children At The Bidding Of Beliefs They Thus Accept.

I Am Firmly Convinced, As I Have Already Said, That To Effect Any Great Social Improvement, It Is Sympathy Rather Than Self-interest, The Sense Of Duty Rather Than The Desire For Self-advancement, That Must Be Appealed To. Envy Is Akin To Admiration, And It Is The Admiration That The Rich And Powerful Excite Which Secures The Perpetuation Of Aristocracies.

The Value Of A Thing Is The Amount Of Laboring Or Work That Its Possession Will Save The Possessor.