Government Is The Great Fiction, Through Which

Why Don't You Reform Yourselves? That Task Would Be Sufficient Enough.

In An Economy, An Act, A Habit, An Institution, Or A Law, Gives Birth Not Only To An Effect, But To A Series Of Effects. Of These Effects, The First Only Is Immediate; It Manifests Itself Simultaneously With Its Cause - It Is Seen. The Others Unfold In Succession - They Are Not Seen. Now This Difference Is Enormous, For It Is Often True That When The Immediate Consequence Is Favorable, The Ultimate Consequences Are Fatal, And The Converse.

But Life Cannot Maintain Itself Alone. The Creator Of Life Has Entrusted Us With The Responsibility Of Preserving, Developing, And Perfecting It. In Order That We May Accomplish This, He Has Provided Us With A Collection Of Marvelous Faculties. And He Has Put Us In The Midst Of A Variety Of Natural Resources. By The Application Of Our Faculties To These Natural Resources We Convert Them Into Products, And Use Them. The Process Is Necessary In Order That Life May Run Its Appointed Course.

No Legal Plunder: This Is The Principle Of Justice, Peace, Order, Stability, Harmony, And Logic. Until The Day Of My Death, I Shall Proclaim This Principle With All The Force Of My Lungs (which Alas! Is All Too Inadequate).

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 Substance Of The People. Woe To The People That Cannot Limit The Sphere Of Action Of The State! Freedom, Private Enterprise, Wealth, Happiness, Independence, Personal Dignity, All Vanish.