Gustave De Molinari Quotes & Sayings

Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen. — Gustave De Molinari

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security. — Gustave De Molinari

Either this is logical and true, or else the principles on which economic science is based are invalid. — Gustave De Molinari

The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor. — Gustave De Molinari

We have seen that improved agents of destruction advance production by continually enlarging its outlets. The security of civilisation has been assured neither by the arts of peace nor yet by those of war, but by the cooperation of both — Gustave De Molinari

Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will. — Gustave De Molinari

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty. — Gustave De Molinari

Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is it not then strange and unreasonable that it accepts them in the security industry? — Gustave De Molinari

What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the product destined in part to consumption and in part to savings, in order to apply it to less productive or even destructive ends, and more rarely to savings. — Gustave De Molinari