The Most Fundamental Purpose Of Government Is

By Today's Standards King George Iii Was A Very Mild Tyrant Indeed. He Taxed His American Colonists At A Rate Of Only Pennies Per Annum. His Actual Impact On Their Personal Lives Was Trivial. He Had Arbitrary Power Over Them In Law And In Principle But In Fact It Was Seldom Exercised. If You Compare His Rule With That Of Today's U.s. Government You Have To Wonder Why We Celebrate Our Independence.

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.

Democracy Has Proved Only That The Best Way To Gain Power Over People Is To Assure The People That They Are Ruling Themselves. Once They Believe That, They Make Wonderfully Submissive Slaves.

Liberals Have A New Wish Every Time Their Latest Wish Is Granted. Conservatives Should Make Them Spell Out Their Principles And Ideals. Instead Of Doing This, Conservatives Allow Liberals To Pursue Incremental Goals Without Revealing Their Ultimate Destination. So, Thanks To The Negligence Of Their Opponents, Liberals Control The Terms Of Every Debate By Always Demanding 'more' While Never Defining 'enough.' The Predictable Result Is That They Always Get More, And It's Never Enough.

The Measure Of The State's Success Is That The Word Anarchy Frightens People, While The Word State Does Not.