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.

The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

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

There 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.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

If citizens wish to retain their liberty, they cannot assume that those who seek power over them are honest. Skepticism of government is one of the most important-and most forgotten-bulwarks of freedom.