Beware of Power. Always.
But with the power to do good comes the power to do evil. Nobody can be trusted with that kind of power.
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But with the power to do good comes the power to do evil. Nobody can be trusted with that kind of power.
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It's up to us to defend our liberty. We can't count on government to do it for us.
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The government can print paper money out of thin air. Every time it does, it makes everything more expensive and you have to pay an inflation tax.
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In a constitutional system, government powers are fixed by the Constitution, not created by "tacit implication."
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The real problem with the biggest government in history isn't the people in power. It's the power in the first place. That means you can't solve the problem by simply switching out the people.
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The government insists that we follow every law, rule, and regulation it lays out to a T. Meanwhile, it ignores the limits on its own power.
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As Samuel Adams put it in a 1776 letter to John Pitts, “How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”
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If we're not to that point today, we're so close it's hard to tell the difference.
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Today, the American system of government is as far from the founders' design as the east is from the west.
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A free people doesn't wait on government to do the right thing. But most people seem to think that liberty is about convincing the government to stop doing the things it wasn’t supposed to be doing in the first place.
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