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.

We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.

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.

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

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

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

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