So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia. So to be more precise, government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices.

I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.

I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.

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.

Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.

In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this?

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.