Taking Five And Returning Four Is Not

If Every Person Has The Right To Defend - Even By Force - His Person, His Liberty, And His Property, Then It Follows That A Group Of Men Have The Right To Organize And Support A Common Force To Protect These Rights Constantly. 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.

This Question Of Legal Plunder Must Be Settled Once And For All, And There Are Only Three Ways To Settle It: (1) The Few Plunder The Many. (2) Everybody Plunders Everybody. (3) Nobody Plunders Anybody.

The Real Cost Of The State Is The Prosperity We Do Not See, The Jobs That Don’t Exist, The Technologies To Which We Do Not Have Access, The Businesses That Do Not Come Into Existence, And The Bright Future That Is Stolen From Us. The State Has Looted Us Just As Surely As A Robber Who Enters Our Home At Night And Steals All That We Love.

No Society Can Exist If Respect For The Law Does Not To Some Extent Prevail; But The Surest Way To Have The Laws Respected Is To Make Them Respectable. When Law And Morality Are In Contradiction, The Citizen Finds Himself In The Cruel Dilemma Of Either Losing His Moral Sense Or Of Losing Respect For The Law, Two Evils Of Which One Is As Great As The Other, And Between Which It Is Difficult To Choose.

The Solution Of The Social Problem Is In Liberty.