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"It is therefore the inhabitants of countries who allow themselves to be coerced who are unnatural, since freedom is their natural state; and their slavery is born of their own fault, not of any lack of courage, but rather of some scorn of their natural condition and some unaccountable failure of good sense."
menu_book Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
View Full Quote"Be resolved to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."
menu_book Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
View Full Quote"If there is one well-established truth in political economy, it is this: That 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 freedom of labor and of trade have as their necessary and permanent result the maximum reduction of price."
menu_book Evenings on Saint-Lazare Street
View Full Quote"No government should have the right to prevent another government from going into competition with it, or to require consumers of security to come exclusively to it for this commodity."
menu_book The Production of Security
View Full Quote"Every act of coercion that creates obstacles to exchange is a destroyer of wealth."
menu_book Libéralisme
View Full Quote"There are indeed only two possible visions of society and its organization: a liberal vision and a constructivist one."
menu_book Libéralisme
View Full Quote"The State has no moral or scientific justification; it is the pure product of the emergence of violence in human societies."
menu_book Libéralisme
View Full Quote"If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism."
menu_book Knowledge and Decisions
View Full Quote"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference, while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
menu_book Democracy in America
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The Constitution of Liberty
A comprehensive treatise on the principles of a free society, exploring the nature of freedom, the rule of law, and the conditions necessary for in...
Read MoreDemocracy in America
A profound analysis of American democratic society and its implications for the future of democracy, exploring the nature of equality, individualis...
Read MoreDiscourse on Voluntary Servitude
Written around 1549 by the young French magistrate Étienne de La Boétie and first published posthumously in 1576, this founding text of libertarian...
Read MoreLaw, Legislation and Liberty
A three-volume work exploring the relationship between law, individual liberty, and social order in free societies
Read MoreLibéralisme
A systematic and uncompromising defence of classical liberalism, arguing that all social questions resolve into one fundamental choice between a li...
Read MorePrinciples of Politics Applicable to All Governments
Major work on political philosophy distinguishing between ancient and modern liberty, arguing for constitutional limits on government power and ind...
Read MoreThe Production of Security
Molinari's short but explosive 1849 essay, the first systematic argument that security and defense, like any other commodity, should be produced by...
Read MoreEvenings on Saint-Lazare Street
A series of Socratic dialogues in the style of Bastiat, Molinari's contemporary and colleague, in which an economist, a conservative, and a sociali...
Read MoreLa Tyrannie fiscale
Exposes the French tax system as arbitrary, economically destructive, and morally indefensible, showing that high taxation is not a neutral technic...
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