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.

[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 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.

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 tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

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

The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.