Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frédéric Bastiat

What is a law?” said he to himself. “It is a measure to which, when once it is decreed, be it good or bad, everybody is bound to conform. For the execution of the same a public force is organized, and to constitute the said public force, men and money are drawn from the whole nation.

What, then, is law? As I have said elsewhere, it is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defence.

It is not because men have made laws that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws.