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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132858)	5/16/2012 10:35:33 PM
From: Farmboy	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224704

You have whetted my curiosity Kenneth. Would you be so kind as to provide a link to that information? Thanks.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132858)	5/16/2012 11:44:20 PM
From: average joe	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224704

Years ago a very radical thinker came up with some ideas that may today be considered seditious. His ideas are a threat to the culture of entitlement most of us consider our birthright. "A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities." "Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government." "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories." "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." "History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is." "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." "I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive." "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." "No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will." "So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done." "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question." "That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part." "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." "The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind." "The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery." "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive." "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." "When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." "Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government." THOMAS JEFFERSON