For us to pay a foreigner with specie is like paying him with coffee.
-- If they say to you: Eat meat-- Reply: Let it come in.
-- If they say to you, like the _Presse_: When you have not the money to buy bread with, buy beef-- Reply: This advice is as wise as that of Vautour to his tenant, "If a person has not money to pay his rent with, he ought to have a house of his own." -- If they say to you, like the _Presse_: The State ought to teach the people why and how it should eat meat-- Reply: Only let the State allow the meat free entrance, and the most civilized people in the world are old enough to learn to eat it without any teacher.
-- If they say to you: The State ought to know everything, and foresee everything, to guide the people, and the people have only to let themselves be guided-- Reply: Is there a State outside of the people, and a human foresight outside of humanity?
Archimedes might have repeated all the days of his life, "With a lever and a fulcrum I will move the world," but he could not have moved it, for want of those two things.

The fulcrum of the State is the nation, and nothing is madder than to build so many hopes on the State; that is to say, to assume a collective science and foresight, after having established individual folly and short-sightedness.
-- If they say to you: My God! I ask no favors, but only a duty on grain and meat, which may compensate for the heavy taxes to which France is subjected; a mere little duty, equal to what these taxes add to the cost of my grain-- Reply: A thousand pardons, but I, too, pay taxes.

If, then, the protection which you vote yourself results in burdening for me, your grain with your proportion of the taxes, your insinuating demand aims at nothing less than the establishment between us of the following arrangement, thus worded by yourself: "Since the public burdens are heavy, I, who sell grain, will pay nothing at all; and you, my neighbor, the buyer, shall pay two parts, to wit, your share and mine." My neighbor, the grain dealer, you may have power on your side, but not reason.
-- If they say to you: It is, however, very hard for me, a tax payer, to compete in my own market with foreigners who pay none-- Reply: First, This is not _your_ market, but _our_ market.

I who live on grain, and pay for it, must be counted for something.
Secondly.

Few foreigners at this time are free from taxes.
Thirdly.