To take by violence is not to produce, but to destroy. Truly, if taking by violence was producing, this country of ours would be a little richer than… - Frédéric Bastiat

To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them. To deceive them, it is necessary to persuade them that they are robbed for their own advantage, and to induce them to accept in exchange for their property, imaginary services, and often worse.

Try to imagine a regulation of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that is not a violation of property. If you cannot reconcile these contradictions, then you must conclude that the law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.