Once for all: liberty consists not only in the right granted, but in the power given to man to exercise, to develop his faculties under the empire of… - Frédéric Bastiat

Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force – for the same reason – cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.

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.

if I have joined the ranks of the reformers, it is solely for the purpose of persuading them to leave people alone. I do not look upon people as Vancauson looked upon his automaton. Rather, just as the physiologist accepts the human body as it is, so do I accept people as they are. I desire only to study and admire.