James Bovard
Bestselling libertarian author and lecturer, whose political commentary targets examples of waste, failures, corruption, cronyism and abuses of power in government.
Bogus fears can produce real servitude.
Attention Deficit Democracy produces the attitudes, ignorance and arrogance that pave the way to political collapse.
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
So much of political philosophy throughout history has consisted of concocting reasons why people have a duty to be tame animals in politicians’ cages.
Nothing happened on 9/11 that made the federal government more trustworthy.
People have been taught to expect far more from government than from freedom.
The U.S. government has created a trade lynch law that can convict foreign companies almost regardless of how they operate.
We need a constitutional amendment to make the federal government obey the Constitution.
Citizens should distrust politicians who distrust freedom.
The better that people understand what Clinton did in office, the greater the nation's chances for political recovery.
Killing foreigners is no substitute for protecting Americans.
It should not be a federal crime to charge low prices to American consumers.
Government cannot make trade more fair by making it less free.
Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.
The Night Watchman State has been replaced by Highway Robber States – governments in which no asset, no contract, no domain is safe from the fleeting whim of politicians.
A lie that is accepted by a sufficient number of ignorant voters becomes a political truth.