Of course, the Federalists also shared a healthy disdain for government, as articulated in the Federalist Papers' detailed description of the limitations on government as set forth in our Constitution and its Bill of Rights. That is the only American principle. Of course, the latter was from Karl Marx. And so it went. It was not until the landslide election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, that a president again so forcefully expressed his disdain for government.
Government is like a baby.
This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, 'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits'.