James Bovard Quotes

It is impossible to destroy all alleged enemies of freedom everywhere without also destroying freedom in the United States.

Killing foreigners is no substitute for protecting Americans.

There is no technological magic bullet that will make the government as smart as it is powerful.

The worse government fails, the less privacy citizens supposedly deserve.

The Patriot Act treats every citizen like a suspected terrorist and every federal agent like a proven angel.

Nothing happened on 9/11 that made the federal government more trustworthy.

The better that people understand what Clinton did in office, the greater the nation's chances for political recovery.

The principle of government supremacy is Clinton's clearest legacy.

For scores of millions of Americans, Clinton's "caring" was more important than his lying.

Clinton exploited and expanded the dictatorial potential of the U.S. presidency.

Trusting government nowadays means dividing humanity into two classes: those who can be trusted with power to run other people’s lives, and those who cannot even be trusted to run their own lives.

The growth of government is like the spread of a dense jungle, and the average citizen can hack through less of it every year.

The surest effect of exalting government is to make it easier for some people to drag others down.

So much of political philosophy throughout history has consisted of concocting reasons why people have a duty to be tame animals in politicians’ cages.

The Night Watchman State has been replaced by Highway Robber States – governments in which no asset, no contract, no domain is safe from the fleeting whim of politicians.