Jack: They put the bosses of the mining companies in charge of regulatin' the mines?
Jacob: I'll tell you all you need to know about politics, son.
Jack: You're in politics.
Jacob: I'm in law enforcement.
Jack: Well, you enforce the laws you push through.
Cara: Jack.
Jack: I ain't complainin'. I'm just sayin' it's the same thing. You're a cattle man in charge of regulatin' cattle. Am I wrong?
Jacob: There's this theory that these scientists came up with after studyin' tribes in India and Africa, South America. The smaller tribes didn't have any government. Didn't need any. They could sit down and talk out their problems, decide where to plant crops, to hunt. They was just a big family, really. But when the number of people got up around 500, if there wasn't any government, the strongest people would take advantage of the weakest every time, without fail. They would enslave, rape, steal, enrich their lives at the expense of other people's lives. Government's man's ways of tryin' to control our behavior, but it can't be controlled. It's what we are. Sooner or later, the kind of people that would enrich themselves at your expense will use the government to do it, and mark my words, one day, they'll create laws to control what we say, how we think. They'll outlaw our right to disagree if we let 'em. I created the commission to protect the way this family provides for itself, how it protects the land.