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

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.

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

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

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

Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.

Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man - in temperament, character, and capacity - and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so.