What appears to me as the most common prudence is considered there as insane recklessness.
Category: Public choice
LETTERS TO MR. HORACE SAY – 4
The following thought must be submitted to the public: that the State guarantees security to each and everyone but does not meddle in anything else.
ELECTIONS
The interest of the minister is to increase its power and its wealth. However, it can increase its power only by restricting my freedom and its wealth by reaching into my pockets.
REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE LANDES IN 1849 PERTAINING TO THE QUESTION OF COLLECTIVE PROPERTY
It is dangerous to believe that this right should be removed in the face of the legislator’s wishes.
UNDER THE REPUBLIC – XV – SCRAMBLING FOR THE SPOILS
It is necessary to assess the root cause of the disease, and it would be childish to demand that the human heart be different from how nature created it.
ABOUT THE RAILWAY FROM BORDEAUX TO BAYONNE
It is not sufficient to observe the fact, it needs to be assessed against its cause.
TRADE FREEDOM
Will the public eventually not open their eyes upon this shameful myth they are fooled by?
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
I have often been surprised that Statesmen dared to endorse the responsibility of such a policy.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
As for the shortage of work that is created by machines, there has never been a larger misunderstanding since the world was created.
ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF THE PROTECTIONIST REGIME ON THE SITUATION OF AGRICULTURE IN FRANCE
Is artificial direction transmitted to capital and labour better than natural direction?
LETTERS TO MR. FELIX COUDROY
How on earth should we fight against a school that has the power in its hand and promises perfect happiness to everybody?
LETTERS TO MR. FELIX COUDROY
There is only one thing the public doesn’t want to deal with, and that is public affairs.
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SERVICES
How can individuals delegate rights that they do not possess?
PRODUCER AND CONSUMER
It behooves the one who seeks the satisfaction to determine whether it is respectable, moral, reasonable, beneficial. The responsibility rests with him.
THE LAW
The law has become corrupt under the influence of two very different causes: unintelligent selfishness and bogus philanthropy.
THE STATE
The state must give a great deal to its citizens and take very little from them.
THE STATE
The state is the great fiction by which everyone endeavors to live at the expense of everyone else.
THE STATE
Man rejects pain and suffering. And yet he is condemned by nature to the suffering privation brings if he does not embark upon the pain of work.
2. DISMISSING MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES.
But this is where the loss lies. In the village, one man dug and ploughed: he was a worker. At Metz, he turns his head left and right: he is a soldier.
20. – MONITA SECRETA: THE SECRET BOOK OF INSTRUCTIONS.
The minister will resort to a loan in terror, and we will gain one year or perhaps two; the interest payments will fall on the people.
11. – THE SPECIALISTS.
In sum, are we paying a government to help us damage each other or, on the contrary, to stop us from doing so?
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.
VI. – TO ARTISANS AND WORKERS.
These people do not want any competition for their changing wool into cloth because it is their trade, but they are all too willing to accept competition for the converting of cloth into suits because it is yours.