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

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

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

[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.

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

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.