Citizens should distrust politicians who distrust freedom. - James Bovard

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The Night Watchman State has been replaced by Highway Robber States – governments in which no asset, no contract, no domain is safe from the fleeting whim of politicians.

There are no harmless political lies about a war. The more such lies citizens tolerate, the more wars they will get.