Why Don't You Reform Yourselves? That Task

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.

When Law And Morality Contradict Each Other, The Citizen Has The Cruel Alternative Of Either Losing His Moral Sense Or Losing His Respect For The Law.

What, Then Is Law [government]? It Is The Collective Organization Of The Individual Right To Lawful Defense.

If Philanthropy Is Not Voluntary, It Destroys Liberty And Justice. The Law Can Give Nothing That Has Not First Been Taken From Its Owner.

The Mind Never Fully Accepts Any Convictions That It Does Not Owe To Its Own Efforts.