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

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

The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.

[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.

The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much so that he is not aware of it; enhanced Executive power to the point of reducing Congress to innocuity; and enabled the central government to bribe the states, once independent units, into subservience. No kingship in the history of the world ever exercised more power than our Presidency, or had more of the people's wealth at its disposal.

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