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.
Category: government
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.
Authority without responsibility
If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.
Government vs. industry
All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.
Power in high places
Those who complain the most about the quality of the people in power are the ones who put all that power there in the first place. Well, what kind of people did they expect it all to attract, anyway? Sheesh!
Competence in government
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.
The threat to the American Dream
Most of us think the American Dream is a birthright, but I’ve been around long enough to realize that, without constant care and vigilance, it can and will be whittle down to nothing. The threatening agent is not some foreign power, but people who don’t understand the proper relationship between the public and private arenas. In other words, the greatest threat to the American Dream is the idea that dreamers need close government scrutiny and control. Job one for us is to make sure the public sector does a limited job, and no more.
Authority and responsibility
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Appropriate form of government
Government should be set up so that no man need be afraid of another.