Liberalism demands that people without guns be able to tell people with guns what to do. Stephen Holmes More Quotes by Stephen Holmes More Quotes From Stephen Holmes There is no rule of law until the Mafia needs lawyers. Stephen Holmes mafia law needs In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public authorities can be outgunned or bribed, the vibrancy of the private sector can be pathological. Stephen Holmes vibrancy libertarian government Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for instrumental thinking. But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost. Stephen Holmes evil enemy thinking
