Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says to the citizen: “Your earnings are not exclusively your own; we have a claim on them, and our claim precedes yours; we will allow you to keep some of it, because we recognize your need, not your right; but whatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide.

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

The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact.

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.

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

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 State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.