It behooves the one who seeks the satisfaction to determine whether it is respectable, moral, reasonable, beneficial. The responsibility rests with him.
Category: Public choice
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.