The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.

Today'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.

Americans' liberty is perishing beneath the constant growth of government power. Federal, state and local government's are confiscating citizens' property, trampling their rights, and decimating their opportunities more than ever before.... American liberty can still be rescued from the encroachments of government. The first step to saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose unless fundamental political changes occur.

Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.

Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.

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

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.