The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Category: government
Descent into tyranny
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Reality over perception
When government ignores reality, very bad things happen.
The rising tide of tyranny
American tyranny has come gradually, like a slowly rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes in our door. Until then, it is merely someone else’s problem and a problem that we fool ourselves into thinking won’t reach us.
Who to blame
Politicians, as I have often said, are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Continue reading “Who to blame”Limiting government power
Government should never be able to do anything you can’t do. If you can’t steal from your neighbor, you can’t send the government to steal for you.
Freedom from coercion
Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.
Don’t steal
Don’t steal — the government hates competition!
The company you keep
When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
The worst failure
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.