It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, we don’t need protections against it.

Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.

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