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Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.
— James Bovard
The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
— James Bovard
American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.
— James Bovard
The more people expect from government, the more biased they become against limiting government power.
— James Bovard
Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.
— James Bovard
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.
— Richard Paul Evans
Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.
— James Bovard
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
— James Bovard
Not to recognize God is to oppose the kingdom of love
— Sunday Adelaja
America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.
— James Bovard
Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.
— James Bovard
The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.
— James Bovard
Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.
— Jonathan Messinger
Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.
— James Bovard
We are currently too attached to our worldly toys, rather than to the lessons our playing could impart to further the maturity of our collective soul.
— Ilchi Lee
Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.
— James Bovard
The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.
— Eric Ambler
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
— James Bovard
The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.
— James Bovard
You are as dry as vermouth.
— Lauren Groff
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?
— James Bovard
He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it.
— Gary McCord
A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.
— James Bovard
It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.
— James Bovard
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 chief.
— James Bovard
This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.
— James Bovard
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
— James Bovard
It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.
— James Bovard
Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.
— James Bovard