“The State can always afford to finance what its citizens can soundly produce.”

Full Employment in a Free Society (1944) Pt. 7

Source: Liberty Before Liberalism (1998), p. 119

If This Goes On— (p. 401)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

1880s, Inaugural address (1881)
Context: No doubt this great change has caused serious disturbance to our Southern communities. This is to be deplored, though it was perhaps unavoidable. But those who resisted the change should remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States. Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen.

Page 42.
Sweet Tooth (2012)

“The Contradiction in Objectivism,” 1968

Living in Truth (1986), An Anatomy of Reticence

[Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain, https://books.google.com/books?id=uz7nJkFvVn0C, 1985, Harvard University Press, 978-0-674-86729-1] (quote from p. 3)

Statement to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, as quoted in Problems of Journalism (1966) by the American Society of Newspaper Editors
Unsourced variant : "Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens — it is an imposition on the state."
Variant: Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.