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.

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

Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation.

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

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.