Even If We Are All Doomed To

There Can Be No Such Thing As "limited Government," Because There Is No Way To Control An Entity That In Principle Enjoys A Monopoly Of Power.

It Would Be A Healthy Exercise For Every Politician To Look In The Mirror Every Morning And Remind Himself That He Holds Office Only Because, In A Two-man Race Against Another Mediocrity, A Modest Majority Of Those Half-informed People Who Imagined That Their Votes Mattered Reckoned That He Was The Lesser Evil. And They Weren't Too Sure About That.

At The End Of A Century That Has Seen The Evils Of Communism, Nazism And Other Modern Tyrannies, The Impulse To Centralize Power Remains Amazingly Persistent.

Tax Time Approaches, And Americans Are As Always Paying H & R Block Billions To Help Them Save Some Of Their Wealth From Their Ravenous Government. Pitiful, In A Way: It Underlines The Grim But Unacknowledged Fact That The Government Is Their Enemy And They Have To Hire Protection From It. But Don't We Enjoy 'self-government'? Well, If We Have It, I'd Hardly Say We Enjoy It. True, We Aren't Being Taxed By The Monarch Of Great Britain, But Our American-born Rulers Claim Far More Of Our Wealth Than The British Monarchs Ever Did.

Even If We Are All Doomed To Live Under The State, It Doesn't Follow That There Is, Or Even Can Be, Such A Thing As A Good State.