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?

Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state.

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.