"The State’s openly assigned priority to its own defense against the public strikes few people as inconsistent with its presumed raison d’etre."

"A war between rulers was converted into a war between peoples, with each people coming to the defense of its rulers in the erroneous belief that the rulers were defending them."

"War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system."

"The market economy is the only system that has ever lifted man out of the morass of poverty and given him the leisure to develop his faculties."

"The State’s power to nationalize industries is the power to destroy productivity and innovation."

"The market economy is the only system that can provide true freedom of choice."

"The market economy is a dynamic process of discovery, not a static allocation of resources."

"The market, by expecting a fall in prices, discounts that fall and makes it happen right away instead of later."

"It foresaw that World War II would transform America into a Leviathan State, into a domestic totalitarian collectivism, with suppression of civil liberties at home."

"Barnes dismissed his own past criticism of the World War II unconditional surrender policy as valid but superficial; for he had learned from General Albert C. Wedemeyer’s book that the murder of Germans and Japanese was the overriding aim of World War II."

"The State’s claim to protect workers is a pretext for limiting their freedom to negotiate."

"The State is a gang of thieves writ large."

"The State’s power to nationalize industries is the power to destroy productivity and innovation."