The following are some quotes that I have run across that I have decided to share. At the very least, they should be something to get you thinking. The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Nothing is more permanent as a temporary government program.
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy, more that that, with an enemy which is weak. It was incredible that the human species should have arrived at so noble an attitude, so paridoxical, so refined, so anti-natural.