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.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.

[When people] say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

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.

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