"Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property."

"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone."

"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."

"Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal."

"Taxes must, in the end, fall upon the consumer."

"The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else."

"When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will."

"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law."