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"In order to provide us with all this protection, the state managers expropriate more than 40 percent of the incomes of private producers year in and year out."
menu_book The Private Production of Defense
View Full QuoteView Full Quote"It is a sharing of plunder, not a gift, the state is not the legitimate owner of what it has taken from the taxpayer."
"What difference does it make whether a man is despoiled of his fortune openly and by force, or secretly, by stealth, whether through a bandit on the road or through a prince who debases the currency by which all things are measured?"
menu_book De Rege et Regis Institutione (On the King and the Royal Institution)
View Full Quote"The prince is not the owner of the private property of his subjects. To impose new taxes or to increase old ones without the consent of the people is an act of tyranny, contrary to natural law and destructive of the commonwealth."
menu_book De Rege et Regis Institutione (On the King and the Royal Institution)
View Full Quote"The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion."
menu_book Anatomy of the State
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De Rege et Regis Institutione (On the King and the Royal Institution)
Juan de Mariana's major work of political theory, published in 1599. Mariana argues that political power originates in the community and is held in...
Read MoreLe Détail de la France
Boisguilbert's landmark diagnosis of French economic decline, arguing that ruinous taxation and mercantilist interference had strangled commerce an...
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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