Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.

Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks. The compelling issue to both conservatives and liberals is not whether it is legitimate for government to confiscate one's property to give to another, the debate is over the disposition of the pillage.

Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.

Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in the way of education about what our Constitution means and why it was written. Thus, we've fallen easy prey to charlatens, quacks, and hustlers.

If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.

If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all.