Often The Masses Are Plundered And Do

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?

If Socialists Mean That Under Extraordinary Circumstances, For Urgent Cases, The State Should Set Aside Some Resources To Assist Certain Unfortunate People, To Help Them Adjust To Changing Conditions, We Will, Of Course, Agree. This Is Done Now; We Desire That It Be Done Better. There Is However, A Point On This Road That Must Not Be Passed; It Is The Point Where Governmental Foresight Would Step In To Replace Individual Foresight And Thus Destroy It.

The Most Urgent Necessity Is, Not That The State Should Teach, But That It Should Allow Education. All Monopolies Are Detestable, But The Worst Of All Is The Monopoly Of Education.

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.

Property, The Right To Enjoy The Fruits Of One's Labor, The Right To Work, To Develop, To Exercise One's Faculties, According To One's Own Understanding, Without The State Intervening Otherwise Than By Its Protective Action; This Is What Is Meant By Liberty