...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish.

The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading others by compulsion. It so functions today to an extent exasperating to the authoritarians - which is why they want to get rid of it.

There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.

The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.

Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are backed by the police force. All of us know this to be true under communism, but it is equally true under our own brand of welfare statism.

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.