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.

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

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

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

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

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.