Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.

Once we realize that government doesn't work, we will stop dreaming that this or that social problem can be solved by passing a law - or by creating a new government program - or by electing someone who will make Washington more efficient or cost-conscious.

Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

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

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