* Close to 90% of the disbursements of the federal government go for what is laughingly known as "defense"....The Pentagon is like a black hole: what goes in is forever lost to us, and no new wealth is created. * I do not accept the authority of any state--much less one founded as was ours upon the free fulfillment of each citizen--to forbid me, or anyone, the use of drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, sex with a consenting partner or, if one is a woman, the right to an abortion. I take these rights to be absolute, and should the few persist in their efforts to dominate the private lives of the many, I recommend force as a means of changing their minds.