But in the thickets of the law, oh, there I'm a forester. Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake. We live in an age of moral self-doubt. One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing.
Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers.
All wisdom does not reside in laws passed by Congress. Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. We'll pay without limit for a war on drugs, but not to heal the addicted. Law can never make us as secure as we are when we do not need it.