Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom.

Collectivists would have you believe that individualism is merely another word for selfishness, because individualists oppose welfare and other forms of coercive redistribution of wealth, but just the opposite is true. Individualists advocate true charity, which is the voluntary giving of their own money, while collectivists advocate the coercive giving of other people's money; which, of course, is why it is so popular.

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were $475 million and, by 1865, had risen to one billion, three-hundred million dollars. On the income side of the ledger, taxes covered only about eleven per cent of that figure. By the end of the war, the deficit had risen to $2.61 billion. That money had to come from somewhere.

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.

Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive