I want a house with a garage, so someone from the government won’t try to park a tank in my living room.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people.January 1830

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck."[On Water]

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.

Government is like a baby An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the othe

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

That which we want less of in society should rarely be privatized and that which we want more of often should be.

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force Like fire it is a dangerous servant and fearful maste

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.