The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.