We wanted security. And they gave us chains. And we were "secure.

At first there appears to be nothing wrong with asking government to perform some extra service for you, but if you ask government for extra services, government, in order to perform its increasing function, has to get bigger, right?...And the government gets bigger. And the individual gets littler. Until the government is all-powerful, and the individual is hardly anything at all. Until the government is all-powerful and the people are cattle.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.