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Gustave de Molinari

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Gustave de Molinari was a prominent economist, born on March 3, 1819, and died on January 28, 1912. He is considered one of the pioneers of laissez-faire economics and free-market theory, having a profound impact on the fields of economics and political philosophy.

Production of Security, The

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“Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.”

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“My property rights are there! Work is therefore the certain foundation, the pure source, the holy origin of the rights of property. Otherwise the self is not primordial and original property, and the faculties, an expansion of the self and the organs put to its service, do not belong to it, which would be intolerable.”

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“The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.”

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“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.”

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“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?”

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“Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.”

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“Either this is logical and true, or else the principles on which economic science is based are invalid.”

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“Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.”

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“War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.”

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About the Author

Born: March 3, 1819
Died: January 28, 1912
Known for: Economist
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