If Goods Don't Cross Borders, Armies Will.

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.

By Virtue Of Exchange, One Man's Prosperity Is Beneficial To All Others.

Trade Protection Accumulates Upon A Single Point The Good Which It Effects, While The Evil Inflicted Is Infused Throughout The Mass. The One Strikes The Eye At A First Glance, While The Other Becomes Perceptible Only To Close Investigation.

Trade Barriers Constitute Isolation; Isolation Gives Rise To Hatred, Hatred To War, And War To Invasion.

And Now That The Legislators And Do-gooders Have So Futilely Inflicted So Many Systems Upon Society, May They Finally End Where They Should Have Begun: May They Reject All Systems, And Try Liberty; For Liberty Is An Acknowledgment Of Faith In God And His Works