The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it. - Frédéric Bastiat

Man does not live upon nominal values, but upon real products, and the more products there are, whatever be their price, the richer he is.

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

God has given to men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a human form. And these social organs of humans are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of liberty. Away, then, with the quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, chains, hooks and pincers! Away with their artificial systems! Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations!
And, now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.