It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his freedom to use or not use his reason about any given subject. In short, the natural fact of his "free will." He also discovers the natural fact of his mind's command over his body and its actions: that is, of his natural ownership over his self.

The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness

Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that have brought about our remarkable standard of living. It would truly be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the state is profoundly and inherently anti-capitalist .