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"From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time."
menu_book The Constitution of Liberty
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menu_book Against Intellectual Property
View Full Quote"By inventing a new technique for digging a well, the inventor can prevent all others in the world from digging wells in this manner."
menu_book Against Intellectual Property
View Full Quote"Only because scarcity exists is there even a problem of formulating moral laws; insofar as goods are superabundant ('free' goods), no conflict over the use of goods is possible and no action-coordination is needed."
menu_book Against Intellectual Property
View Full QuoteView Full Quote"Mohammed brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not only religious doctrines but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories."
"Not every kind or degree of wrong is sufficient justification for war. The degree of the punishment must be in proportion to the degree of the fault."
menu_book De Indis (On the Indians)
View Full Quote"The whole world, which is in a sense a single republic, has the power to enact laws that are just and convenient for all persons, such as are the rules of the law of nations."
menu_book De Indis (On the Indians)
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Against Intellectual Property
Drawing on Austrian property rights theory and the insight that ideas are non-scarce goods, argues that patents and copyrights are not natural righ...
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Francisco de Vitoria's landmark 1532 lecture at the University of Salamanca, laying the groundwork for international law and natural rights theory....
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A three-volume work exploring the relationship between law, individual liberty, and social order in free societies
Read MoreLegal Foundations of a Free Society
A comprehensive collection of revised essays spanning three decades of libertarian legal theory, covering the foundations of rights, punishment, co...
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