That when government grows beyond its appropriate bounds, it foments a malignancy more dangerous than its separate elements;
That “as government expands, liberty contracts”;
That centralized funding centralizes power;
That regardless of its professed humanitarian motives, the powers of government are founded in force, and even the best governments pose a substantial threat to the very rights that they are instituted to protect;
That government programs, once established, tend to remain, regardless of whether they remain effective and regardless of the harm they come to inflict;
That the myriad of small but unjustified government expenditures cannot be separately defended by pointing out the relative insignificance of each of them alone, as the dollar is no less valuable when it is counted in pennies;
That no government the size, density, and complexity of the United States federal government can be made so transparent that the governed can effectively monitor and control it;
That governments are not subject to the perfecting forces of supply and demand, and that a democratic constitution, though essential, is inadequate to wrest adequacy from government;
That regardless of what is promised of it, the use of expanded government authority will be shaped by politics and corruption;
That government reform, private competition, and individual freedom often succeed where increased government spending and power fail;
That as there is no end to the promised benefits of government intrusion, there is no enterprise or personal sphere of freedom that is not ultimately at risk of being bled of its value or driven from existence;
That the government cannot control an economy without controlling people, and that in controlling people, “it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose”;
That freedom and its benefits are most endangered when Americans are severally bribed into selling not only their own freedom, but also that of their neighbors;
That when it relieves families and voluntary associations of their traditional responsibilities by supplanting them in their invaluable role, a government can extinguish blessings that no government can replace;
That government must be both meaningfully restrained by law and assertively supervised by the governed....