The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness but instead are designed to secure the particular happiness of various advocacy groups, politicians and bureaucrats.

With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.