The consumer gets the best deal when the product is cheapest, and the product is cheapest when people can freely compete in the market place.

Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.

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

Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with free trade between individuals or nations, you must realize that your standard of living is being lowered as a result.

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.

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