Everywhere we look we see the encroaching shadow of the police state.
In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.
Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.
We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.
There isn’t any doubt that in fighting the War on Terrorism you increase the power and scope of government, and it becomes more intrusive.
The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.
The Constitution protects individual decisions in matters of childbearing from unjustified intrusion by the state ….The right to privacy in connection with decisions affecting procreation extends to minors as well as adults.
Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.
The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave; government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.
When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy!
If the distinction provided by Jesus' words: Give unto god, what is god's, and unto Caesar what is Caesar's! is carried through, then other necessary intrusions by the national state into the domain of church creeds can be completely avoided.
Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.