Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I am the servant of the State; but, he implies, the State is God. You could revolt against a Bourbon king, and the French did it. This was, of course, a struggle of man against man. But you cannot revolt against the god State and against his humble handy man, the bureaucrat.

The market and its inescapable law are supreme.

The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is the result of an election than if one must endure it as the consequence of a military conquest.

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.