Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. - Frédéric Bastiat

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

the public has two hopes, and Government makes two promises — many benefits and no taxes. Hopes and promises that, being contradictory, can never be realized.

And let it not be said, as it continually is, that the law, in this sense, would be atheistic, individual, and heartless, and that it would make mankind wear its own image. This is an absurd conclusion, quite worthy of the governmental infatuation which sees mankind in the law.