Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time. The era of resisting big government is never over. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production. The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.