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volchara“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” ~ John Adams
“Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends ... by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government” ~ George Washington
“The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
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“Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends ... by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government” ~ George Washington
“The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
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Date: 2022-03-31 02:58 pm (UTC)It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency.
Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.
" - Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-1859) Алексис де Токвиль
"A man's admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him." -- Alexis de Tocqueville.