“The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.”

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

“Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.”

“Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.”

“There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.”

“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”

“When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.”