” A nation of well‑informed men, who have been taught to know and
to prize the rights that God has given them cannot be enslaved.
It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.”
Benjamin Franklin
HAVE WE BECOME AN IGNORANT PEOPLE: I GIVE YOU EXHIBIT A — BARACK OBAMA.
“...the natural tendency of things is for government to gain
ground and for liberty to yield...let no more be heard of
confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Thomas Jefferson
“(Centralized government) will destroy the state government,
and swallow the liberties of the people.” Patrick Henry
“People get the government they deserve†Joseph de’Maistre
If this is the government about which the Founders warned us, it’s because, with just a few exceptions conspicuous by their rarity, we have become the people they feared we would become.