“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it, even if we were sure that they existed. It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended. …Human beings, we may be assured, will generally exercise power when they can get it; and they will exercise it most undoubtedly, in popular governments, under pretences of public safety or high public interest. It may be very possible that good intentions do really sometimes exist when constitutional restraints are disregarded. There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters.” — Daniel Webster (1782-1852) Author, Lawyer and Patriot
Boom!
"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." Thomas Jefferson (1816 letter to Joseph Milligan Category: Reference: Vindicating the Founders, West [136]; original Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Bergh, ed., vol. 14 [466])
BOOM!
"One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary." --philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
The creation of crony capitalists, slaves to the statist agenda!
"Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government." James Madison, the Primary author of the U.S. Constitution
Should have been the end of the discussion!
Look where we are now?!
"A Republic ma'am, if you can keep it." Ben Franklin
Oops!
Clearly, we need to start all over!
Good find Weisshaupt!
