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.

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.

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.

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.

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

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.