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.
Category: Democracy
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.