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.

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.

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.

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.

We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.

Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.