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Who Then Would Not Like To See These Benefits Flow Upon The World From The Law, As From An Inexhaustible Source? But Is It Possible? Whence Does The State Draw Those Resources That It Is Urged To Dispense By Way Of Benefits To Individuals? Is It Not From The Individuals Themselves? How, Then, Can These Resources Be Increased By Passing Through The Hands Of A Parasitic And Voracious Intermediary?

Law Is Justice. In This Proposition A Simple And Enduring Government Can Be Conceived. And I Defy Anyone To Say How Even The Thought Of Revolution, Of Insurrection, Of The Slightest Uprising Could Arise Against A Government Whose Organized Force Was Confined Only To Suppressing Injustice.

Government Is The Great Fiction, Through Which Everybody Endeavors To Live At The Expense Of Everybody Else.

And What Is Liberty, Whose Very Name Makes The Heart Beat Faster And Shakes The World? Is It Not The Union Of All Liberties - Liberty Of Conscience, Of Education, Of Association, Of The Press, Of Travel, Or Labor, Or Trade?

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 You Reform Yourselves? That Task Would Be Sufficient Enough.