A great cause has never failed by the want of a great man.
Category: Democracy
SOME MORE QUESTIONS ASKED TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FOR AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES AND TRADE
Once the State will be the owner of everything, what will matter will be to become the owner of the State.
TRADE FREEDOM
Will the public eventually not open their eyes upon this shameful myth they are fooled by?
LARGE MEETING IN MANCHESTER
It is a glorious era, the one when thousands of citizens can meet up freely.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
When considering exchanges, what is simpler than liberty?
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
Assuming that the mission of the legislator is to ensure that people have work, or failing that, have bread, I ask “Why start by taxing the bread itself?”
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
Party bias is the greatest scourge of constitutional nations.
SIXTH SPEECH
What is a privilege to some is a servitude to others.
LAZINESS AND RESTRICTION
It may well work. However, is this part of the mission of governments?
ABOUT ARMING GREAT BRITAIN AGAIN
When supporting a bad cause, what needs to be prevented the most, is that light be shed.
LIMITS THAT THE FREE-TRADE ASSOCIATION SETS TO ITSELF
The word “freedom” implies in itself the absence of fraud and violence. Because fraud and violence infringe freedom.
LETTER TO A GROUP OF SUPPORTERS
Now, the poor demand more than what is just and the rich refuse even that which is just.
TO THE ELECTORS OF THE LANDES
A people bound by the ties of privilege, bureaucracy, and taxes is like a tree eaten away by parasite plants.
ON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM
And whatever good opinion you have of the virtue of Council members, do you think that they will avoid succumbing to this test?
TO THE ELECTORS OF THE DISTRICT OF SAINT-SEVER
There would no longer be any limit to the expansion of the powers that be, apart from riot, or to increase in the budget, apart from bankruptcy.
TO THE ELECTORS OF THE DISTRICT OF SAINT-SEVER
The best policy for a candidate is to hide his opinions, or, for even greater security, not to have any.
TO THE ELECTORS OF THE DEPARTEMENT OF THE LANDES
Left to itself, it soon exceeds the limits which circumscribe its mission. It increases beyond all reason the number and wealth of its agents. It no longer administers, it exploits. It no longer judges, it persecutes or takes revenge. It no longer protects, it oppresses.
LETTERS TO RICHARD COBDEN
Begone the laws that precede the progress of opinion!
LETTERS TO RICHARD COBDEN
I shall show that commercial emancipation leads to political emancipation.
LETTERS TO MR. FELIX COUDROY
Men of power keep themselves busy in retaining it only.
LETTERS TO MR. FELIX COUDROY
There is only one thing the public doesn’t want to deal with, and that is public affairs.
RESPONSIBILITY
Advise me, but do not force your opinion on me.
WAGES
Must we always start with the fatal premise that all those who govern are guardians and all the governed are wards?
WAGES
For the moment, one would have thought that the human heart itself was about to undergo a great transformation and, shaking off the yoke of self-interest, would henceforth be guided by nothing less than the purest forms of self-sacrifice.
SPEECH ON THE REPRESSION OF INDUSTRIAL UNIONS
How do you expect a law that is unintelligent and unintelligible to be respected? That is impossible.
XIII. – PROTECTION, OR THE THREE MUNICIPAL MAGISTRATES.
This is how monopoly, like any form of injustice, carries within itself the seed of its own punishment.