When there is good to be done or evil to fight, relying on law enforcement first appears as the shortest, most economical and most efficient way to do.
Category: Individualism
LETTER TO MR. ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
Some accidental dissent does not prevent me to be the most sincere and passionate admirer of yours.
UNTITLED
Is it not misguided to search for the solution in a fake unity, contrived, intolerant, persecuting, socialist, which is indeed unable to present its titles for domination and its proof of truth?
THE FREE-TRADER KING
We would like that each citizen, in order to improve his own destiny, would count a bit more on himself and a bit less on the public coffers.
FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION
Freeing trade is a question of prosperity, justice, order and peace.
PERFECTIBILITY
To tamper with man’s freedom is not only to injure him, to degrade him; it is to change his nature…
RESPONSIBILITY
Free will implies the possibility of error, and error in turn implies pain and suffering as its inevitable consequences.
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SERVICES
No two men find themselves in identical circumstances, nor is there any one man whose circumstances do not vary from day to day.
THE TWO MOTTOES
Individualism, then, accomplishes the task that the sentimentalists of our day would entrust to brotherhood, to self-sacrifice, or to some other motive opposed to self-love.
COMPETITION.
The accusation that competition tends toward inequality is far from true. On the contrary, all artificial inequality is due to the absence of competition;
17. – A LITTLE MANUAL FOR CONSUMERS; IN OTHER WORDS, FOR EVERYONE.
And, as each person is the sole judge of the desire he feels and the effort demanded of him, the essential character of these transactions is that they are free.