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.

The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government's involvement at all.

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, the result must necessarily be central planning.

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.

If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

The government is always looking for something that appears more dangerous than itself, and these criminals seem to fit the bill. Never mind that it was the government that promised but failed to protect us. It was the government that prevented the airlines from protecting themselves. It was the government that so badly botched the rescue operations. It was the government that had stirred up the hate that led to the terrorism.