Acton Republican Town Committee

"It's going to take a while for us to dig ourselves out of this hole."

Kansas City, July 8, 2010

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

"When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing— they believe in anything"

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue.

“Otherwise and usefully employed, as, for example, upon habitations and hearthstones, works of common utility, means of national defense, that amount of labor might have raised the standard of common living in Egypt to a higher plane, besides insuring Egyptian civilization a longer competitive life. But once it had been spent on a pyramid to immortalize the name of Pharaoh it was spent forever.”

"Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causus."

(Happy the man who has learned the causes of things)

"... liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have every thing to fear from its union with either of the other departments;"

"... that they can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society... without which every government degenertes into tyranny."

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite...

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.