“ Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism? ”
The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.
Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.