Gustave de Molinari > Quotes

“Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.”
― Gustave de Molinari

“Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.”
― Gustave de Molinari

“War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.”
― Gustave de Molinari

“We have seen that improved agents of destruction advance production by continually enlarging its outlets. The security of civilisation has been assured neither by the arts of peace nor yet by those of war, but by the cooperation of both”
― Gustave de Molinari

“My property rights are there! Work is therefore the certain foundation, the pure source, the holy origin of the rights of property. Otherwise the self is not primordial and original property, and the faculties, an expansion of the self and the organs put to its service, do not belong to it, which would be intolerable.”
― Gustave de Molinari

“Now in pursuing these principles, one arrives at
this rigorous conclusion:
That the production of security should, in the
interests of the consumers of this intangible commodity, remain subject to the law of free competition.
Whence it follows: That no government should
have the right to prevent another government from
going into competition with it, or require consumers of security to come exclusively to it for this
commodity. . . .
Either this is logically true, or else the principles
on which economic science is based are invalid.”
― Gustave de Molinari

“The interests of the consumer of any commodity whatsoever should always prevail over the interests of the producer.”
― Gustave de Molinari, The Production of Security