taxation

The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war.

-- Bill St. Clair

Ayn Rand: Atlas_Shrugged

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_in_Atlas_Shrugged

"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." -- John Galt