And What Is Liberty, Whose

Trade Barriers Constitute Isolation; Isolation Gives Rise To Hatred, Hatred To War, And War To Invasion.

The Real Cost Of The State Is The Prosperity We Do Not See, The Jobs That Don’t Exist, The Technologies To Which We Do Not Have Access, The Businesses That Do Not Come Into Existence, And The Bright Future That Is Stolen From Us. The State Has Looted Us Just As Surely As A Robber Who Enters Our Home At Night And Steals All That We Love.

They Would Be The Shepherds Over Us, Their Sheep. Certainly Such An Arrangement Presupposes That They Are Naturally Superior To The Rest Of Us. And Certainly We Are Fully Justified In Demanding From The Legislators And Organizers Proof Of This Natural Superiority.

Justice Is Achieved Only When Injustice Is Absent.

Men Naturally Rebel Against The Injustice Of Which They Are Victims. Thus, When Plunder Is Organized By Law For The Profit Of Those Who Make The Law, All The Plundered Classes Try Somehow To Enter, By Peaceful Or Revolutionary Means, Into The Making Of Laws. According To Their Degree Of Enlightenment, These Plundered Classes May Propose One Of Two Entirely Different Purposes When They Attempt To Attain Political Power: Either They May Wish To Stop Lawful Plunder, Or They May Wish To Share In It.