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"There is a lot of talk about "rigged games" as of late. Big government is the most insipid of all "rigged games". There is no choice available to the public allowing it to avoid a big over-arching government. You can always chose not do business with a big corporation. Corporations that are distasteful can be avoided. A big, powerful, government bent on intrusion cannot be avoided."
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"The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart."

"The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying."

"Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO's and board members."

"In reality, commissions rarely solve complicated problems. Therefore, the following question arises: what is worse " to establish a commission knowing it cannot solve a complicated problem, or to believe that the commission will truly solve such a problem?"

"There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences."

"The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things."

"An assembly is extra slow in taking actions."

"Truth is commodity in political consumption."

"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government."

"Any nation that teaches and make there people look for miracles are making their people weak."
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"Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights."

"It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy."

"Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking."

"Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away."

"History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction."

"If collectivizing highly personal medical decisions is evil, then so follows that collectivized medicine is evil."

"The term "totalitarian" was derived from Adolf Hitler's "Total State", which was a "craddle to grave" solution that sought to micro-manage all aspects of humanity."

"The textbook in question in the infamous Scope's Monkey Trial was partially written by the Harvard educated white supremacist, Charles B. Davenport."
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