The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.
James BovardThere has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.
James BovardToday's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the ideal of the Welfare State: citizens are permitted only liberties which have been declawed, defanged, neutered, certified and wrapped in benevolent restrictions.
James BovardDemocracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
James Bovard