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James Bovard
40 quotes
“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
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Recorded in: Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994), p. 333
“A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.”
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“America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government.”
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“Government cannot make trade more fair by making it less free.”
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“Fair trade” is a moral delusion that could be leading to an economic catastrophe.”
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“The U.S. government has created a trade lynch law that can convict foreign companies almost regardless of how they operate.”
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“It should not be a federal crime to charge low prices to American consumers.”
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“A law is simply a reflection of the momentary perception of self-interest by a majority of a legislative body.”
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“The federal tax system is turning individuals into sharecroppers of their own lives.”
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“Paternalism is a desperate gamble that lying politicians will honestly care for those who fall under their power.”
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“The Night Watchman State has been replaced by Highway Robber States – governments in which no asset, no contract, no domain is safe from the fleeting whim of politicians.”
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“So much of political philosophy throughout history has consisted of concocting reasons why people have a duty to be tame animals in politicians’ cages.”
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“The surest effect of exalting government is to make it easier for some people to drag others down.”
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“The growth of government is like the spread of a dense jungle, and the average citizen can hack through less of it every year.”
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“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.”
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“Clinton exploited and expanded the dictatorial potential of the U.S. presidency.”
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“For scores of millions of Americans, Clinton's "caring" was more important than his lying.”
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“The principle of government supremacy is Clinton's clearest legacy.”
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“The better that people understand what Clinton did in office, the greater the nation's chances for political recovery.”
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“Nothing happened on 9/11 that made the federal government more trustworthy.”
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“The Patriot Act treats every citizen like a suspected terrorist and every federal agent like a proven angel.”
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“The worse government fails, the less privacy citizens supposedly deserve.”
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“There is no technological magic bullet that will make the government as smart as it is powerful.”
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“Killing foreigners is no substitute for protecting Americans.”
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“It is impossible to destroy all alleged enemies of freedom everywhere without also destroying freedom in the United States.”
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“A lie that is accepted by a sufficient number of ignorant voters becomes a political truth.”
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“Citizens should distrust politicians who distrust freedom.”
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“In the long run, people have more to fear from governments than from terrorists. Terrorists come and go, but power-hungry politicians will always be with us.”
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“Truth is a lagging indicator in politics.”
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“The arrogance of power is the best hope for the survival of freedom.”
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“We need a constitutional amendment to make the federal government obey the Constitution.”
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“There are no harmless political lies about a war. The more such lies citizens tolerate, the more wars they will get.”
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“People have been taught to expect far more from government than from freedom.”
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“Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.”
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“Instead of revealing the “will of the people,” election results are often only a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions.”
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“Bogus fears can produce real servitude.”
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“As long as rulers are above the law, citizens have the same type of freedom that slaves had on days when their masters chose not to beat them.”
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“Democracy unleashes the State in the name of the people.”
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“The more that democracy is assumed to be inevitable, the more likely it will self-destruct.”
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“Attention Deficit Democracy produces the attitudes, ignorance and arrogance that pave the way to political collapse.”
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