We spend a lot of effort trying to make things look effortless.
Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.
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. '
The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.
The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.
each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the new.
Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.
To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.