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.
Category: government
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.
Freedom shrinks as government grows
The more powerful the national government grows, the less free Americans will become.
Modern government in a nutshell
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
Checks and restraints
Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.
What truly matters
What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.
They are supposed to work for us
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?