Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes our wealth and makes war. And we think honest men would do that work?

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

Too many voters are already bought -- not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.