And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide fairly distributed economic security, and improve individual moral behavior. If the government is granted a monopoly on the use of force to achieve these goals, history shows that power is always abused. Every single time.

Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?

America's heart and soul is more embedded in our love of liberty, self-reliance, and tolerance than by our foreign policy, driven by powerful special interests with little regard for the Constitution.

We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.

[Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they will run the country if elected. The problem is that government is not supposed to run the country - we're supposed to be free.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.