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

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.

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.

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

[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.

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

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.