Let Us First Of All

As Long As It Is Admitted That The Law May Be Diverted From Its True Purpose - That It May Violate Property Instead Of Protecting It - Then Everyone Will Want To Participate In Making The Law, Either To Protect Himself Against Plunder Or To Use It For Plunder.

The People Who, During The Election, Were So Wise, So Moral, So Perfect, Now Have No Tendencies Whatever; Or If They Have Any, They Are Tendencies That Lead Downward To Degradation. . . . If People Are As Incapable, As Immoral, And As Ignorant As The Politicians Indicate, Then Why Is The Right Of These Same People To Vote Defended With Such Passionate Insistence?

When Goods Do Not Cross Borders, Soldiers Will.

Finally, Is Not Liberty The Restricting Of The Law Only To Its Rational Sphere Of Organizing The Right Of The Individual To Lawful Self-defense; Of Punishing Injustice?

The Politician Attempts To Remedy The Evil By Increasing The Very Thing That Caused The Evil In The First Place: Legal Plunder.