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

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.

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

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

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.

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

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.