War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

Since outright slavery has been discredited, democracy is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

War is just one more big government program.

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.