James Bovard Quotes

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• Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
• This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.
• As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass…
• It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often…
• There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting…
• The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a…
• How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?
• Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government…
• It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden…
• The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
• The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
• Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.
• The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue…
• To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the…
• America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.
• Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to…
• The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.
• If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
• For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special.
• If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in…

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