The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates..

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men..

The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it i….

The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but ….

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery..

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion..

Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples….

Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man - in tem….

Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States..

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped..

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will sto….

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution ….

We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats..

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates..

[When people] say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' ….

When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to the security ….

Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says t….

The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no n….

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids..

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, ….

The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much so that h….