Everyone Wants To Live At The Expense

There Is Not A Tool, An Implement, Or A Machine That Has Not Resulted In A Decrease In The Contribution Of Human Labor. Labor Is Not Made Permanently Idle [though]; When Replaced In One Special Category... It Turns Its Attack Against Other Obstacles On The Main Road To Progress.

It Is Indeed A Singular Thing That People Wish To Pass Laws To Nullify The Disagreeable Consequences That The Law Of Responsibility Entails. Will They Never Realize That They Do Not Eliminate These Consequences But Merely Pass Them Along To Other People? The Result Is One Injustice The More And One Moral The Less.

There Is In All Of A Strong Disposition To Believe That Anything Lawful Is Also Legitimate. This Belief Is So Widespread That Many Persons Have Erroneously Held That Things Are "just" Because The Law Makes Them So.

They Would Be The Shepherds Over Us, Their Sheep. Certainly Such An Arrangement Presupposes That They Are Naturally Superior To The Rest Of Us. And Certainly We Are Fully Justified In Demanding From The Legislators And Organizers Proof Of This Natural Superiority.

Slavery, Protection, And Monopoly Find Defenders, Not Only In Those Who Profit By Them, But In Those Who Suffer By Them.