Wartime Always Brings Expansions Of

Wartime Always Brings Expansions Of State Power, Together With Erosions Of Moral And Constitutional Standards.

It's A Real Enigma Why People Are So Averse To Real Free Market Capitalism Even Now. Here We Are, In The Century That Has Seen Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro, Pol Pot-and We're Still Being Warned Against The 'robber Barons' Of The 19th Century. I Don't Know That Jay Gould Or John D. Rockefeller Ever Killed Anyone. The State Has Killed Countless People, And Yet We're Always Supposed To Remain On Guard Against These 'greedy Villains' Of Yesteryear.

Politics Is The Conspiracy Of The Unproductive But Organized Against The Productive But Unorganized.

By Today's Standards King George Iii Was A Very Mild Tyrant Indeed. He Taxed His American Colonists At A Rate Of Only Pennies Per Annum. His Actual Impact On Their Personal Lives Was Trivial. He Had Arbitrary Power Over Them In Law And In Principle But In Fact It Was Seldom Exercised. If You Compare His Rule With That Of Today's U.s. Government You Have To Wonder Why We Celebrate Our Independence.

The Most Fundamental Purpose Of Government Is Defense, Not Empire.