In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state.

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.

The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.

We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn't know it.

Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes our wealth and makes war. And we think honest men would do that work?

Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering.