[volunbeer]

Let’s weigh the brilliance and understanding of the chosen one against some other notable men.....

“Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”
-Ronald Reagan

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.”
-Patrick Henry

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
-George Washington

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.”
-William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783

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 felicity.
-Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address.

I rest my case.

[orinoco]

A quote from Abraham Lincoln regarding the success and prosperity of the U.S...

All this is not the result of accident. It has a philosophical cause. Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of “Liberty to all”—the principle that clears the path for all—gives hope to all—and, by consequence, enterprise, and industry to all.

The desire in the human heart for liberty is what made this country great. Limited small government allowed liberty to flourish. Big government is destroying it!!!