Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

Americans are coming to their senses, and the libertarian theory of society and government is pointing the way. The times change, but the enduring principles that help us to interpret and understand the world do not. It remains true now, as then, as in the future, saecula saeculorum, that government provides neither an effective nor a moral means for solving any human problem.

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

The people and the warmakers are two distinct groups. We must never say 'we' when discussing the US government's foreign policy. For one thing, the warmakers do not care about the opinions of the majority of Americans. It is silly and embarrassing for Americans to speak of 'we' when discussing their government's foreign policy, as if their input were necessary to or desired by those who make war.

Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.