Only in situations where competition is illegal will competition not act naturally to bring the best product at the lowest price to the consumer.

Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.

In Sherman's famous march through Georgia, his soldiers left a swath of death and destruction, destroying crops, burning homes and killing civilians. Sherman himself acknowledged that only 20% of the destruction inflicted by his invasion was inflicted on military objectives. Civilian non-combatants, essentially innocents, suffered 80% of the losses.

Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation.

I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.