the common force cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, the liberty, or the property of individuals or of classes. - Frédéric Bastiat

legislators have almost always been ignorant of the object of society, which is to unite families by a common interest.

But when James Goodfellow hands over a hundred sous to a government official to receive no service for it or even to be subjected to inconveniences, it is as if he were to give his money to a thief.

The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense; it is the substitution of collective for individual forces, for the purpose of acting in the sphere in which they have a right to act, of doing what they have a right to do, to secure persons, liberties, and properties, and to maintain each in its right, so as to cause justice to reign over all.