The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.

It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity, than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation.

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.