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

Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions men live by. That being so, the market place is a most humane institution.

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 of the prenatal state. The more he is taken care of the more he wants care.

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

Private capitalism makes a steam engine State capitalism makes pyramids.

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 separated by trade barriers.

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 need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact.

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

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

The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.

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

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give it merely takes.

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 is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates under an inner compulsion to get the most out of life with the least expenditure of labor.

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

At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.