For what are our faculties, but the extension of our personality? and what is property, but an extension of our faculties? - Frédéric Bastiat

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...

It is worth our while to pay a little attention to the extent of genius required by these legislators, that we may see how, by confounding all the virtues, they showed their wisdom to the world.

When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it — without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force or by fraud — to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed.