No greater pull exists than being or being the spawn of the current Swamp Thing.

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline ... But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance. ~ Murray N. Rothbard

I don't make jokes -- I just watch the government and report the facts. ~ Will Rogers

What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin’s communism and Mussolini’s fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure. ~ Leonard E. Read

Because todays ICE like 90s ATF and the 08-16 BLM has(d) been encouraged and licensed to a recklessness for effect from their respective Whitehouses. The image is dated. It's fro the Second Waco Massacre, when cops murdered bikers just for being bikers. The quote is, though, timeless.

A gas bag President comes with unavoidable costs.

"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing. - Alphonse Karr

.lThe result is the feeding frenzy that is modern Washington, the Hobbesian war of all against all as each tries to get his share and more of the common pot the tax system fills. ... It is unseemly and wrong. More than that, it is unconstitutional, ~ Roger Pilon

A longer and wider problem than today's ICE, but accurate, if not inclusive.

Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed? ~ Count Axel Oxenstierna

All animals are created equal but some animals are more equal than others. ~ George Orwell

Law and order to protect civilization is often uncivilized law and disorder "Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without but an equilibrium which is set up from within. Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort." José Ortega y Gasset

This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention, the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State; that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long-run sustains, nourishes and impels human destinies. ~ José Ortega y Gasset

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

The State will unfailingly aggrandize itself, if only it has the power, first at the expense of its own citizens, and then at the expense of anyone else in sight. It has always done so, and always will. ~ Albert Jay Nock

It began when the first predatory group of men clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal. ~ Albert Jay Nock

and whatever power you give the State to do things FOR you carries with it the equivalent power to do things TO you." ~ Albert Jay Nock

"Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it;

It may be your intent to be our masters; how can it be ours to be your slaves? ~ Melians

Since time immemorial, governments have claimed moral superiority. Yet they use laws to loot the productive wealth of working people and build palaces, pyramids, religious monuments, military forces, and other symbols of their power. ~ Marisa Manley

The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood. [Lat., Libertas ultima mundi Quo steterit ferienda loco.] ~ Lucanus

I have no reason to suppose, that he, who would take away my liberty, would not, when he had me in his power, take away every thing else. ~ John Locke

[If Parliament] may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen? ~ Richard Henry Lee

"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy,

Short of the fault in ourselves of allowing and submitting to it, the fault mayn't be in our government but of government.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. ~ Thomas Paine

It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power. ~ Richard Henry Lee