The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.

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.

Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says to the citizen: “Your earnings are not exclusively your own; we have a claim on them, and our claim precedes yours; we will allow you to keep some of it, because we recognize your need, not your right; but whatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide.

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

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.

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

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