The Mind Never Fully Accepts Any Convictions

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.

Sometimes The Law Defends Plunder And Participates In It. Sometimes The Law Places The Whole Apparatus Of Judges, Police, Prisons And Gendarmes At The Service Of The Plunderers, And Treats The Victim - When He Defends Himself - As A Criminal.

Let Us First Of All Frugality In Government-peace And Freedom We Will Have As A Bonus.

If Goods Don't Cross Borders, Armies Will.

Socialism, Like The Ancient Ideas From Which It Springs, Confuses The Distinction Between Government And Society. As A Result Of This, Every Time We Object To A Thing Being Done By Government, The Socialists Conclude That We Object To Its Being Done At All . . . . It Is As If The Socialists Were To Accuse Us Of Not Wanting Persons To Eat Because We Do Not Want The State To Raise Grain