Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.

Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists.

No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.

The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.