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This action of individual exertions, joined to that of the public authorities, frequently performs what the most energetic central administration would be unable to execute.

These are circumstances which do not depend on human foresight; but it is owing to the laws of the Union that there are no licenses to be granted to printers, no securities demanded from editors as in France, and no stamp duty as in France and formerly in England. The consequence of this is that nothing

A new science of politics is indispensable to a new world. This, however, is what we think of least; launched in the middle of a rapid stream, we obstinately fix our eyes on the ruins which may still be described upon the shore we have left, whilst the current sweeps us along, and drives us backwards towards the gulf.

in order to enjoy the inestimable benefits which the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils which it engenders.

Spinoza, là encore, n’a cessé de rappeler : l’État est fait « pour libérer l’individu de la crainte, pour qu’il vive autant que possible en sécurité, c’est-à-dire conserve, aussi bien qu’il se pourra et sans dommage pour autrui, son droit naturel d’exister et d’agir. (…) La fin de l’État est donc en réalité la liberté ». Mais la sécurité n’est pas

The partisans of centralization in Europe are wont to maintain that the Government directs the affairs of each locality better than the citizens could do it for themselves; this may be true when the central power is enlightened, and when the local districts are ignorant; when it is as alert as they are slow; when it is accustomed to act, and they t

“government is bad because it’s a monopoly more than for any other reason. You can think of the world as a free market anarchy where all the land is legitimately owned by 193 landowners that allow you to live on the land under certain conditions.”