List of James Bovard Quotes

Rather Than A Democracy, We Increasingly Have An Elective Dictatorship. People Are Merely Permitted To Choose Who Will Violate The Laws And The Constitution.

If An Election Is Simply A One-day Snapshot Of Transient Mass Delusions, Then This Is Not A Very Noble Form Of Government.

Freedom Is Whatever The President Says It Is, Pending Revision.

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.

The Government's Appearing To Be A Necessary Evil Does Not Oblige People To Trust It. We Face A Choice Of Trusting Government Or Trusting Freedom-trusting Overlords Who Have Lied And Abused Their Power Or Trusting Individuals To Make The Most Of Their Own Lives.

Governments And Citizens Blend Together Only In The Imaginations Of Political Theorists. Government Is, And Always Will Be, An Alien Power Over Private Citizens. There Is No Magic In A Ballot Box That Makes Government Any Less Coercive.

Freedom To Vote Is Valuable Primarily As A Means To Safeguard Other Freedoms.

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.

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.

Once Freedom Is Equated With A Certain Material Standard Of Living, Confiscation Becomes The Path To Liberation.

Liberty Is A Political Firewall That Limits The Damage Government Can Do To The Individual.

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.