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The power of making laws was long vested in those—and still is vested in their descendants—who followed no trade but war, and knew no handicraft but robbery and plunder.

— Thomas Hodgskin The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832)

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Nature rewards industry and skill, the legislator be he who he may, is utterly regardless of the connection between industry and plenty.

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Our leaders invent nothing but new taxes, and conquer nothing but the pockets of their subjects.

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Those who make laws, appropriate wealth in order to secure power.

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Governments have meddled incessantly with money, which in our time has been the fruitful parent of intricate discussions and painful changes.

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Mr. Locke says, that every man has a property in his own person; in fact, individuality—which is signified by the word own—cannot be disjoined from the person.

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