By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.