If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist. One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Attributed to George Washington Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. P.J. O'Rourke A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.