If Goods Don't Cross Borders, Armies Will.

Now, Legal Plunder Can Be Committed In An Infinite Number Of Ways. Thus We Have An Infinite Number Of Plans For Organizing It: Tariffs, Protection, Benefits, Subsidies, Encouragements, Progressive Taxation, Public Schools, Guaranteed Jobs, Guaranteed Profits, Minimum Wages, A Right To Relief, A Right To The Tools Of Labor, Free Credit, And So On, And So On.

Try To Imagine A System Of Labor Imposed By Force That Is Not A Violation Of Liberty; A Transfer Of Wealth Imposed By Force That Is Not A Violation Of Property Rights. If You Cannot Do So, Then You Must Agree That The Law Cannot Organize Labor And Industry Without Organizing Injustice.

Slavery, Protection, And Monopoly Find Defenders, Not Only In Those Who Profit By Them, But In Those Who Suffer By Them.

Legal Plunder Has Two Roots: One, As We Have Just Seen, Is In Human Selfishness; The Other Is In False Philanthropy.

Society Is Composed Of Men, And Every Man Is A Free Agent. Since Man Is Free, He Can Choose; Since He Can Choose, He Can Err; Since He Can Err, He Can Suffer. I Go Further: He Must Err And He Must Suffer; For His Starting Point Is Ignorance, And In His Ignorance He Sees Before Him An Infinite Number Of Unknown Roads, All Of Which Save One Lead To Error.