"De malas costumbres nacen buenas leyes."

"By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others."

"If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resource…"

"Competition is merely the absence of oppression."

"In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a ser…"

"Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force me…"

"The profit of the one is the profit of the other."

"[The socialists declare] that the State owes subsistence, well-being, and education to all its citizens; that it shou…"

"When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not t…"

"L'État c'est la grande fiction à travers laquelle tout le monde s'efforce de vivre aux dépens de tout le monde."