The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.

Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to the security of the prenatal state. The more he is taken care of the more he wants care.