Bush is Tweedledum.
Gore is Tweedledummer.
Bush says he wants the government to stay out of my life as much as possible.
Gore says he wants the government to meddle in my life as much as possible.
Easy, Easy choice.
Down through the ages, the wise men have always known it....and tried to tell us.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
-Thomas Jefferson (1791)
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
-Thomas B. Reed (1886)
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
-William Pitt (1783)
I heartily accept the motto’ "That government is best which governs least".
-Henry David Thoreau
The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.
-Tacitus
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and hence clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-H.L. Mencken
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
-Robert A. Heinlein
More laws, less justice.
-Marcus Tullius Ciceroca (42 B.C.)
The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients.
-Edmund Burke (1899)
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
(Man, that describes Gore to me!)-Louis Brandeis (1928)
If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
-Thomas Sowell (1992)
Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. 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. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
-Daniel Webster
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?
-Thomas Jefferson (1801)
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which 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.
-Thomas Jefferson
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
-H.L. Mencken
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons 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.
-C. S. Lewis
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men’s rights.
-Abraham Lincoln
EditLiberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
-Woodrow Wilson (I forgot one.
)
Vote.
[This message has been edited by Toad (edited 10-30-2000).]
