government power
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Government power has been the unavoidable constant in life. Government decrees and the people obey, but not here. We have no king or queen, we have no dictator, we the people constrain government.
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.
Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions.
As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
The militarization of our law enforcement is due to an unprecedented expansion of government power in this realm. ... Americans must never sacrifice their liberty for an illusive and dangerous, or false, security.