Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

Legalizing abortion to get government out of the bedroom is like legalizing cannibalism to get government out of the kitchen.

A Christian can believe that God 'ordained' the 'powers that be' - including political rulers and slaveholders - for purposes too deep for us to understand fully, and that while they last we must provisionally accept them; but that they were not meant to last forever.

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

Too many voters are already bought -- not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.