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.

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.

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

One ironic legacy of the Clinton administration is the rearming of the American citizenry. Each time Clinton and his friends in Congress threaten another round of anti-gun regulations, the American people respond by stocking up.

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

Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is the product of human creativity in an environment of freedom. The freedom to own, to make contracts, to save, to invest, to associate, and to trade: these are the key to prosperity.