Occupation: Author Birth: 1956
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends..
The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamen….
The more people expect from government, the more biased they become against limiting government power..
Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought..
Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms..
Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state..
Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the America….
Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Const….
The key question for many voters is: How much is the candidate offering for my vote?.
People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and ba….
Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over priva….
Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the ideal o….
The government's appearing to be a necessary evil does not oblige people to trust it. We face a choice of trusting government or trusting freedom-tru….
It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people ….
Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation..
Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised..
We are asking the wrong question. The issue is not who should be trusted with all the power of the Presidency. Instead, we must ask how much power an….
It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-….
The people = government doctrine is equivalent to political infantilism -- an agreement to pretend that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction….
A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect..
It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for ….