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 importance of private property rights
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
Peace through freedom
Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
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.
Prohibition law
A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded
Prohibition destroys civil rights
I think that prohibition of drugs is the most immoral program that the United States has ever engaged in. It’s destroyed civil rights at home and it is responsible for thousands of deaths abroad.
Centralization of powers
The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.
One-world governance vs. the Constitution
Here is the basic problem for transnational progressives: If the U.S. Constitution remains vital, their ultimate goal of global governance is unattainable.
Dysgenics
Today, the welfare state is the most powerful force working to lower the genetic level of the population. Any system that forces the responsible and hard working to support unlimited procreation by the incompetent can only drag down the average. In this little book [War and the Breed], David Starr Jordan reminds us that war is even more ruthlessly dysgenic. The very best of a nation’s men are cut down in battle, often before they have had even a single child.
Limit government to governing
The root evil is that the government is engaged in activities in which it has no legitimate business.