1. “Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.”
2. “The worst thing that can happen through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”
3. “The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
4. “When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.”
5. “If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.”
6. “Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty and his property.”
7. “Legal plunder has two roots: One of them, as I have said before, is in human geed; the other is in false philanthropy.”
8. “The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.”
9. “The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.”
10. “The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.”
11. “The profit of one is the profit of the other.”
12. “It’s always tempting to do good at someone else’s expense.”
13. “Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war and war to invasion.”
14. “Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.”
15. “Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.”
16. “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.”
17. “The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.”
18. “By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.”
19. “If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.”
20. “Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.”
21. “Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches.”
22. “Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.”
23. “The plans differ; the planners are all alike.”
24. “Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.”
25. “Competition is merely the absence of oppression.”
