War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections.

War is just one more big government program.

Yes, government is far too big. But that's not to say that it has much control. It makes a million laws and can't enforce most of them. So many laws, so little…

War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optim…