Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.

It is simply, and solely, the abundance of money within a state [which] makes the difference in its grandeur and power.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

I invested all my money in debt.

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.