When Goods Do Not Cross Borders, Soldiers

As Proof Of This Statement, Consider This Question: Have The People Ever Been Known To Rise Against The Court Of Appeals, Or Mob A Justice Of The Peace, In Order To Get Higher Wages, Free Credit, Tools Of Production, Favorable Tariffs, Or Government-created Jobs? Everyone Knows Perfectly Well That Such Matters Are Not Within The Jurisdiction Of The Court Of Appeals Or A Justice Of The Peace. And If Government Were Limited To Its Proper Functions, Everyone Would Soon Learn That These Matters Are Not Within The Jurisdiction Of The Law Itself.

No Legal Plunder: This Is The Principle Of Justice.

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

I Believe That My Theory Is Correct; For Whatever Be The Question Upon Which I Am Arguing, Whether It Be Religious, Philosophical, Political, Or Economical; Whether It Affects Well-being, Morality, Equality, Right, Justice, Progress, Responsibility, Property, Labor, Exchange, Capital, Wages, Taxes, Population, Credit, Or Government; At Whatever Point Of The Scientific Horizon I Start From, I Invariably Come To The Same Thing—the Solution Of The Social Problem Is In Liberty.

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.