Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?