Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

The government's appearing to be a necessary evil does not oblige people to trust it. We face a choice of trusting government or trusting freedom-trusting overlords who have lied and abused their power or trusting individuals to make the most of their own lives.

Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.

Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.