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Somewhere along the way we lost our conviction that the best government was self-government. In our enthusiasm for turning over every social problem to the administrative bureaucracy for solution, we forgot that democracy is based on the maxim that the solution of the problem of social life is the business of the people themselves. Neither …
Notable Quote – We’ve gone the wrong direction; REALLY wrong! Read More »
Progressives and Socialists (e.g., those that despise our Founding Principles (else why do they never give up in trying to destroy them?)) always look to Government for answers (and always to the most Centralized version of such)? The rest of us that haven’t lost that sense of “rugged individualism” (again, also despised by our betters) …
Somewhere, De Tocquville is smiling: “I told you so!” Read More »
Explaining the incredible prosperity of New England in the colonial era and early American republic, Alexis de Tocqueville noted first that the people were left largely alone by the government.
It may easily be foreseen that almost all the able and ambitious members of a democratic community will labor without ceasing to extend the powers of government, because they all hope at some time or other to wield those powers. … Centralization will be the natural government.” -Alexis De Tocquivelle (“Democracy in America”) And here …
