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War is just one more big government program.
Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.
The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.
The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.
Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.
Loyalty to your country should never require you to lie about it.
The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.
Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.
We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn't know it.
If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.
Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.
Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.
If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.
An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.
Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
Too many voters are already bought -- not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.
Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?
Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.
Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.
The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.
Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.
In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.
When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.
Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.
Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly.
...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation.
Legalizing abortion to get government out of the bedroom is like legalizing cannibalism to get government out of the kitchen.
Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state.
Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.
Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.
There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.
A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you.
I realize that the New York Times probably not written for the express purpose of driving me mad; I think of it as liberalism's daily bulletin board.
Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.
It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.
The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.
I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.
Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.
Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.
The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.
Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its authors.
At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.
All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.
Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.
Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering.