An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Category: government
Legislative priorities
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
The pretext of ‘emergency’
Emergency does not create power.
Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved.
Economic power vs. political power
Always remember the difference between economic power and political power: You can refuse to hire someone’s services or buy his products in the private sector and go somewhere else instead. In the public sector, though, if you refuse to accept a politician’s or bureaucrat’s product or services you go to jail. Ultimately, after all, all regulations are observed and all taxes are paid at gunpoint.
Built-in excess
Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.
Right-sizing government
I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.
There is a difference
Love your country but fear its government.
Government power
You can’t give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad — in fact, to do anything it wants.
The greatest threat to individual liberty
The Left’s ‘resistance’ to Trump is a tacit acknowledgement that conservatives have been correct all along: The great threat to individual liberty is government.
Limit government to governing
The root evil is that the government is engaged in activities in which it has no legitimate business.