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

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.

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.

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

The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.

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?