"If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops."

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

"I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it."

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."

"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."

"Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens."

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

"The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary."

"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"

"Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs."