“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.”
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“The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.”
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“Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.”
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“The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.”
― What Is Money?
― What Is Money?
“Legal plunder has two roots: One of them, as I have said before, is in human greed; the other is in false philanthropy.”
― The Law
― The Law
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