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To: RinaseaofDs
Whomever on this thread wrote the words:

“The only virtuous thing about government is its limit”

should come forth with his real name so that it can go down into a book of famous quotations.


Poor dear. In a book of just-missed-the-mark quotations. A limit on government is something that is antecedent to government. It is something the founders said lay in the people, that was expressed in the Declaration and the Constitution, and that the people should re-impose on government by whichever means are most appropriate when government, whether large or small, starts to trample their liberties.
128 posted on 04/23/2012 10:33:17 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: aruanan

“Poor dear. In a book of just-missed-the-mark quotations. A limit on government is something that is antecedent to government. It is something the founders said lay in the people, that was expressed in the Declaration and the Constitution, and that the people should re-impose on government by whichever means are most appropriate when government, whether large or small, starts to trample their liberties.”

The horses done left the barn already, Clem!

Us stupid, simple engineering folk saw us some right wisdom without the $0.50 words and was sayin’ ‘Good on ya’!’

You lawyerin’ types keep settin’ the rest us of simple folk straight.


216 posted on 04/23/2012 12:18:04 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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