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….

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Const….

However accurate or inaccurate the agency's numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that ….

Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over priva….

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 ….

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….

Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought..

To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the ab….

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people..

Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state..

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights wh….

The key question for many voters is: How much is the candidate offering for my vote?.

Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms..

The more people expect from government, the more biased they become against limiting government power..

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights..

The only things government can do are regulate and redistribute, prohibit and penalize, confiscate and command. Are these the things that liberty is ….

Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the ti….

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….

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….

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves..