"Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of crimes. To say, moreover, that the state’s laws made masses of men and women commit such crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism."
React to this quote
More by Ilana Mercer
See allResonant Thoughts
"No man can be judged a criminal until he be found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection, until it have been proved that he has violated the conditions on which it was granted. Wh…"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"The day has long passed when a university degree was a guarantee of experience in the humanities, or of lit…"
— Robertson Davies"One should not be deceived by philosophical works that pretend to be mathematical, but are merely dubious a…"
— Pierre Louis Maupertuis"We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli…"
— Napoleon Hill"The Law of Reason, page 40."
— Baron d'Holbach"An inequality-furthering phenomenon is technological development. But need it be? Increasingly we get the f…"
— Jan Tinbergen"The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its …"
— J. M. Coetzee
