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Taking The State Wherever Found, Striking Into Its History At Any Point, One Sees No Way To Differentiate The Activities Of Its Founders, Administrators And Beneficiaries From Those Of A Professional-criminal Class.

The Primary Reason For A Tariff Is That It Enables The Exploitation Of The Domestic Consumer By A Process Indistinguishable From Sheer Robbery.

Perhaps The Prevalence Of Pedantry May Be Largely Accounted For By The Common Error Of Thinking That, Because Useful Knowledge Should Be Remembered, Any Kind Of Knowledge That Is At All Worth Learning Should Be Remembered Too.

As A General Principle, I Should Put It That A Man's Country Is Where The Things He Loves Are Most Respected. Circumstances May Have Prevented His Ever Setting Foot There, But It Remains His Country.

Instead Of Recognizing The State As ‘the Common Enemy Of All Well-disposed, Industrious And Decent Men,’ The Run Of Mankind, With Rare Exceptions, Regards It Not Only As A Final And Indispensable Entity, But Also As, In The Main, Beneficent. The Mass-man, Ignorant Of Its History, Regards Its Character And Intentions As Social Rather Than Anti-social; And In That Faith He Is Willing To Put At Its Disposal An Indefinite Credit Of Knavery, Mendacity And Chicane, Upon Which Its Administrators May Draw At Will.