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.

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.

The welfare state is institutionalized crime - 'organized plunder,' as the French economist Frederic Bastiat called it. It systematizes what is intrinsically wrong: forcing some people to support others. The Democrats favor the indefinite expansion of the welfare state, perpetually increasing the ratio of force to freedom in society.

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

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.

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