We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop the trend toward socialism. We must repeal the Sixteenth Amendment.

Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied in every bond issue is a false promise.

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

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

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

When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to the security of the prenatal state. The more he is taken care of the more he wants care.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.