To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.

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

American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it's been a long steady decline from the gold standard and competitive banking to our Fed-run system of inflated paper currency, deposit insurance, and perpetually shaky banks on the dole.

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It is the means for conquering poverty at the lowest rung of society, the basis on which children and the elderly are cared for, the foundation for the cultivation of arts and learning. Crush an economy and you crush civilization.

The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.

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