Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

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

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

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.

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

To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.

Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.