Here I Encounter The Most Popular Fallacy

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.

Here I Encounter The Most Popular Fallacy Of Our Times. It Is Not Considered Sufficient That The Law Should Guarantee To Every Citizen The Free And Inoffensive Use Of His Faculties For Physical, Intellectual And Moral Self-improvement. Instead, It Is Demanded That The Law Should Directly Extend Welfare, Education, And Morality Throughout The Nation. This Is The Seductive Lure Of Socialism. And I Repeat: These Two Uses Of The Law Are In Direct Contradiction To Each Other.

As Long As It Is Admitted That The Law May Be Diverted From Its True Purpose - That It May Violate Property Instead Of Protecting It - Then Everyone Will Want To Participate In Making The Law, Either To Protect Himself Against Plunder Or To Use It For Plunder.

The Impulses Of My Heart Are The Voice Of Nature, Which Is Never Mistaken. The Institutions That Stand In My Way Are Man-made And Are Only Arbitrary Conventions To Which I Have Never Given My Consent. In Trampling These Institutions Underfoot, I Shall Have The Double Pleasure Of Satisfying My Inclinations And Of Believing Myself A Hero

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.