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The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.
Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.
Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.
The more freedoms Americans lose, the more dangerous government becomes.
Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.
As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people.
The key question for many voters is: How much is the candidate offering for my vote?
Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.
There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives.
It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.
This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.
The more people expect from government, the more biased they become against limiting government power.
Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.
The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.
The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.
Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.
American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.
For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special.
The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.
If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.
How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?
Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.
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.
Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.
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 time.
Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.
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 American people.
I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.
There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.
Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.
Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.
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 fundamental political changes occur.
Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.
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 any candidate can be trusted with.
The people = government doctrine is equivalent to political infantilism -- an agreement to pretend that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction or exaction inflicted upon him.
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 freedom that our forefathers had.
As we learned from the Clinton administration and much of the media, a machine gun in the hands of a federal agent is now a symbol of benevolence and concern for a child's well-being.
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-called conservative administration.
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.
As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
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 could get off at any stop along the way.
There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. ... The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose.
