Patrick Henry on the Constitution:
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
Thomas Jefferson on the Constitution:
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
C.S. Lewis on the dangers of a ‘benevolent’ government (read ‘health care’):
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
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