Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

Is this Paradise?'
'I can guarantee you that it isn't,' Jubal assured him. 'My taxes are due this week.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. - Beyond the Horizon, 1942.

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.