In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren song of special privilege, the capitalists have abandoned capitalism.

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 pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

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

[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.

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