It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.

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

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

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

You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

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 more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'