Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.

This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense of the rights of person and property-can be and have been supplied far more efficiently and certainly more morally by private persons. The State is in no sense required by the nature of man; quite the contrary.

The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.