The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

Always and everywhere, the only serious political issue is what the state should and should not do. All the rest distracts.

Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing.

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

Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

To centralize power in the name of freedom is akin to putting a crime syndicate in charge of rooting out corruption. It is the normal state of politics that the more centralized it is, the more damage it does. Fast-track authority [for government-to-government trade agreements] centralizes power and is therefore part of the problem.

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.