There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

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 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.

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

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.