No Legal Plunder: This Is The Principle

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 We Assure The Socialists That We Repudiate Only Forced Organization, Not Natural Organization. We Repudiate The Forms Of Association That Are Forced Upon Us, Not Free Association. We Repudiate Forced Fraternity, Not True Fraternity. We Repudiate The Artificial Unity That Does Nothing More Than Deprive Persons Of Individual Responsibility. We Do Not Repudiate The Natural Unity Of Mankind Under Providence.

The Balance Of Trade Is An Article Of Faith.

There Is In All Of A Strong Disposition To Believe That Anything Lawful Is Also Legitimate. This Belief Is So Widespread That Many Persons Have Erroneously Held That Things Are "just" Because The Law Makes Them So.

No Society Can Exist If Respect For The Law Does Not To Some Extent Prevail; But The Surest Way To Have The Laws Respected Is To Make Them Respectable. When Law And Morality Are In Contradiction, The Citizen Finds Himself In The Cruel Dilemma Of Either Losing His Moral Sense Or Of Losing Respect For The Law, Two Evils Of Which One Is As Great As The Other, And Between Which It Is Difficult To Choose.