Repetition May Not Entertain, But It Teaches.

Now Since Man Is Naturally Inclined To Avoid Pain - And Since Labor Is Pain In Itself - It Follows That Men Will Resort To Plunder Whenever Plunder Is Easier Than Work. History Shows This Quite Clearly. And Under These Conditions, Neither Religion Nor Morality Can Stop It. When, Then, Does Plunder Stop? It Stops When It Becomes More Painful And More Dangerous Than Labor. It Is Evident, Then, That The Proper Purpose Of Law Is To Use The Power Of Its Collective Force To Stop This Fatal Tendency To Plunder Instead Of To Work. All The Measures Of The Law Should Protect Property And Punish Plunder.

We Cannot But Be Astonished At The Ease With Which Men Resign Themselves To Ignorance About What Is Most Important For Them To Know; And We May Be Certain That They Are Determined To Remain Invincibly Ignorant If They Once Come To Consider It As Axiomatic That There Are No Absolute Principles.

In Short, Is Not Liberty The Freedom Of Every Person To Make Full Use Of His Faculties, So Long As He Does Not Harm Other Persons While Doing So?

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.

People Are Beginning To Realize That The Apparatus Of Government Is Costly. But What They Do Not Know Is That The Burden Falls Inevitably On Them.