The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but it also enables them to improve their importance. The have-nots who support the politicians in the demand for income taxation do so only because they hate the haves; . . . the sum of all the arguments for income taxation comes to political ambition and the sin of covetousness.