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.

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

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

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

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 only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but it also enables them to improve their importance. The have-nots who support the politicians in the demand for income taxation do so only because they hate the haves; . . . the sum of all the arguments for income taxation comes to political ambition and the sin of covetousness.

The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates under an inner compulsion to get the most out of life with the least expenditure of labor.