Substitute for the term "employee" in one of our new laws the term "serf," even do so mild a thing as to substitute the traditional term "master" for the word "employer," and the blunt words might breed revolt.

BELLOC, HILAIRE, The Servile State, Section 8, Making for Servile State

...lately it seems like the news media are acting like the public relations arm of government...watch the evening news - any night, any network. Here’s what you will see: One society problem after another. Crisis after crisis. And always at least the hint of a solution - another government regulation, another bureaucracy, a little more taxpayer spending.

FARRAH, JOSEPH, The Free Press in a Free Society, Whistleblower Magazine, May 2002

We have subsidies for housing, subsidies for farmers, subsidies for power, subsidies for shipping, and subsidies for the aged. We take one man’s property to give to another and think it is right simply because it is accomplished by majority vote. We have adopted the Marxist principle of "from each according to ability, to each according to need."

HUSTED, RALPH, The Moral Foundation of Freedom, The Freeman, March 1966

We have outright government ownership of hundreds of enterprises. We have government interference with the right to contract in practically every area of economic activity. In many areas such interference is so great that the free market, freedom of economic choice, is gone. We have allowed ourselves to think that a little socialism will not hurt us, but the acorn has now grown into a giant of the forest.

HUSTED, RALPH, The Moral Foundation of Freedom, The Freeman, March 1966

The [civil] war did enable Lincoln to "save" the Union, but only in a geographic sense. The country ceased being a Union, as it was originally conceived, of separate and sovereign states. Instead, America became a "nation" with a powerful federal government. It initiated a process of centralization of government that has substantially restricted liberty and freedom in America.

MILLER, JR., DONALD W., The Economic Roots of the Civil War, Liberty, October 2001

The Constitution of the Confederate States of America forbid protectionist tariffs, outlawed government subsidies to private businesses, and made congressional appropriations subject to approval by a two-thirds majority vote. It enjoined Congress from initiating constitutional amendments, leaving that power to its constituent states; and limited its president to a single six-year term. When the South lost, the stage was set for the United States to become an American Empire ruled by a central authority.

MILLER, JR., DONALD W., The Economic Roots of the Civil War, Liberty, October 2001

[A] document of delegated, enumerated, and thus limited powers became in short order a document of effectively unenumerated powers, limited only by rights that would thereafter be interpreted narrowly by conservatives on the Court and episodically by liberals on the Court. Both sides, in short, would come to ignore our roots in limited government, buying instead into the idea of vast majoritarian power - the only disagreement being over what rights might limit that power and in which circumstances.

PILON, ROGER, Before the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary, United States House of Representatives (May 15, 1997), as cited in Powell, Jim, FDR’s Folly, Chapter 15

New Dealers always seemed to be comparing actual capitalism with ideal government. They judged capitalism by its apparent effects and government by its announced intentions.

POWELL, JIM, FDR’s Folly, Chapter 1 (2003)

Blacks have fared the worst with Social Security. The rate of return for black males has been negative for the past four decades, since 1960.

POWELL, JIM, FDR’s Folly, Chapter 18 (2003)

Marketing orders, authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 as amended, continue to restrict production and marketing. They are the most blatant type of interference with U.S. agricultural markets, a throwback to medieval times when guilds determined who could work in various trades, how much they could charge, and how much they could produce.

POWELL, JIM, FDR’s Folly, Chapter 18 (2003)

Many environmentalists consider the TVA to be America’s most notorious polluter. It expanded far beyond its original mandate, as bureaucracies tend to do, and built coal-fired power plants. The discharges from these make the TVA the biggest U.S. violator of the Clean Air Act.

POWELL, JIM, FDR’s Folly, Chapter 18 (2003)

After Americans had suffered through a catastrophic contraction for three years (1929-1933), FDR supported policies like the National Industrial Recovery Act that promoted further contraction. His executive orders helped enforce higher consumer prices when millions of Americans were unemployed and needed bargains. FDR approved the destruction of food when people were hungry. FDR signed into law higher taxes for everybody, so consumers had less money to spend, and employers had less money with which to hire people - during the worst depression in American history. New Deal labor laws empowered the most racist unions to exclude blacks and had the effect of making it illegal for many employers to hire blacks. The power of the Federal Reserve became more centralized, but this meant that the mistakes of a few people (members of the Federal Reserve Board) were likely to harm millions across the United States; and indeed the Fed’s mistakes were a major cause of the depression of 1938 as well as the monetary contraction of 1929-1933. After having throttled competition with the National Industrial Recovery Act, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Bituminous Coal Conservation Act, Robinson-Patman Act, Retail Price Maintenance Act, Federal Communications Act, Civil Aeronautics Act, high corporate taxes, and other measures, new Dealers posed as defenders of competition and filed a record number of antitrust lawsuits against private employers, one effect of which was to further discourage investment needed for growth and jobs.

POWELL, JIM, FDR’s Folly, Chapter 18 (2003)

FDR imagined that government spending programs would end the agony of high unemployment, but he ignored the fact that government spending comes directly or indirectly from taxation, and people taxed have less money to spend or invest, offsetting the effect of spending programs.

POWELL, JIM, FDR’s Folly, Chapter 18 (2003)

Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It negates man's fundamental right--the right to life--and establishes the fundamental principle of statism: that a man's life belongs to the state, and the state may claim it by compelling him to sacrifice it in battle. If the state may force a man to risk death or hideous maiming and crippling, in a war declared at the state's discretion, for a cause he may neither approve of nor even understand, if his consent is not required to send him into unspeakable martyrdom--then, in principle, all rights are negated in that state, and its government is not man's protector any longer. What is there left to protect?

Government is no longer contained behind the walls of the Constitution. It roams where it pleases, throughout every walk of life and throughout every department of business. From workers to wages to materials to products, the government is everywhere.

[Y]ou should read the ten points of the Communist Manifesto and see how close we have come to achieving them right here in America. It’s amazing.

Americans share an awesome burden and moral responsibility. If liberty dies in the United States, it is destined to die everywhere.

Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience and sacrifice of countless liberty-loving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich, of black and white, of Jew and Gentile, of foreign and native born. Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when man will find its protective warmth again.