The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but it also enables them to improve their importance. The have-nots who support the politicians in the demand for income taxation do so only because they hate the haves; . . . the sum of all the arguments for income taxation comes to political ambition and the sin of covetousness.

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.

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.

[When people] say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

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.

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