Principles of Liberty: The Proper Role of Government.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

The Proper Role of Government.

This is an excellent speech given by
The Honorable Ezra Taft Benson
Former Secretary of Agriculture
[The Eisenhower Administration – ed.]
Published in 1968

http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/benson.htm

Check it out, it's a great explanation.

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"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. . . . Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it." - Ronald Reagan

Thomas Jefferson--"If the freedom of religion ... can ... prevail, the genuine doctrines of Jesus ... will again be restored to their original purity. This reformation will advance with the other improvements of the human mind, but too late for me to witness it." On another occasion he wrote that he was "Happy in the prospect of a restoration of primitive Christianity."

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”--John Adams

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper....The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront the facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time.General facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war....but no detail can be relied on."

--Thomas Jefferson

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

* Adrian Rogers, 1931*

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." --

Abraham Lincoln

“The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing. (October 27, 1964)”

Ronald Reagan

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