Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth. . . . Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society.
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.
A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.