Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

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.

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.