No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.
The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing
Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny.
Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.
... for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.
When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.
When I was doing interviews at the FBI, my tape recorder battery died. They gave me a new one, and I said, 'Of course, this is bugged?'
To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.
They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
