Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Justice is the insurance we have on our lives, and obedience is the premium we pay for it.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
