Gustave de Molinari

"It offends reason to believe that a well-established natural law can admit of exceptions.  A natural law must hold everywhere and always, or be invalid.  I cannot believe, for example, that the univer…"

"The production of security should, in the interests of the consumers of this intangible commodity, remain subject to the law of free competition.  …  o government should have the right to prevent anot…"

"In the entire world, there is not a single establishment of the security industry that is not based on monopoly or on communism.    Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism …"

"But why should there be an exception relative to security?  What special reason is there that the production of security cannot be relegated to free competition?  Why should it be subjected to a diffe…"

"Whether communism is partial or complete, political economy is no more tolerant of it than it is of monopoly, of which it is merely an extension."

"The moral authority of governors rests, in reality, on the self-interest of the governed.  The latter having a natural tendency to resist anything harmful to their self-interest, unacknowledged author…"

"If there is one well-established truth in political economy, it is this:"

"In all cases, for all commodities that serve to provide for the tangible or intangible needs of the consumer, it is in the consumer's best interest that labor and trade remain free, because the freedo…"