I found most of my friends quite content to be used as tax-material, even though the sums of money taken from them were employed against their own beliefs and interests. They had lived so long under the system of using others, and then in their turn being used by them, that they were like hypnotized subjects, and looked on this subjecting and using of each other as a part of the necessary and even Providential order of things. The great machine had taken possession of their souls.

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

Countries adopting free-market capitalism have increased output 70-fold, halved work days and doubled lifespans.

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.

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