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

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

Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead toward jumping through hoops of lawyers and regulators, and prevent other operations from ever getting off the ground.

Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.

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.