» Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
» The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone expects to live at the expense of everyone else.
» We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.