If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

There are no proceeds from contracts or public contracts, or money that has been deviated from public funds.

[G]overnments are not producers, they have no commodities on their road to the market, and can have no claim whatever to issue paper-money. Even exchequer bills are wrong,…

Wealth not used is of no value at all.

There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.

I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.

Nobody pays you if nobody knows you.

The wealth of a miser is as useless as a pebble.

No amount of charity in spending such fortunes can compensate in any way for the misconduct in acquiring them.

It is impossible to add the stock of money to the flow of saving.