“[A]cknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”
-Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address Read the rest of this entry »
Posts Tagged Government
Is Your Government Good?
Jan 22
“Let me get this straight. The government can’t efficiently run the post office, the school system, or the DMV. It can’t police our border’s properly, it failed to prevent the S&L crisis, 9/11, the dot com bubble, the housing collapse and the credit crisis, its IRS created a fully incomprehensible 78,000 page tax code, and its Congress writes bills so long that no one has time to read them, but I should still trust it to make personal decisions for me against my will? I think I’ll pass…”
-Arguing With Idiots by Glenn Beck Read the rest of this entry »
