The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur. James Bovard More Quotes by James Bovard More Quotes From James Bovard It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them. James Bovard positive-thinking important people Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals' rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work - slow, inefficient, and unreliable. James Bovard government gun rights To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the ability of average people to peacefully, productively coexist without some official policing their every move. The State is merely another human institution - less creative than Microsoft, less reliable than Federal Express, less responsible than the average farmer husbanding his land, and less prudent than the average citizen spending his own paycheck. James Bovard government average moving Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision. James Bovard president war peace The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights. James Bovard voting rights people How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President? James Bovard certificates mcdonalds president This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic. James Bovard india president law Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people. James Bovard president age people Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual. James Bovard liberty political government As we learned from the Clinton administration and much of the media, a machine gun in the hands of a federal agent is now a symbol of benevolence and concern for a child's well-being. James Bovard media gun children As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people. James Bovard reins government people We are asking the wrong question. The issue is not who should be trusted with all the power of the Presidency. Instead, we must ask how much power any candidate can be trusted with. James Bovard issues should asking It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration. James Bovard conservative administration favors I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it. James Bovard fog responsibility lying The only things government can do are regulate and redistribute, prohibit and penalize, confiscate and command. Are these the things that liberty is made of? Somebody else's money and an endless list of Thou Shalt Nots? James Bovard lists liberty government Americans' liberty is perishing beneath the constant growth of government power. Federal, state and local government's are confiscating citizens' property, trampling their rights, and decimating their opportunities more than ever before.... American liberty can still be rescued from the encroachments of government. The first step to saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose unless fundamental political changes occur. James Bovard government rights opportunity Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy. James Bovard government law fall People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. James Bovard selfish mean lying The more freedoms Americans lose, the more dangerous government becomes. James Bovard loses dangerous government Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the ideal of the Welfare State: citizens are permitted only liberties which have been declawed, defanged, neutered, certified and wrapped in benevolent restrictions. James Bovard risk liberty today
