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“I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.”

Government Economy Saws Activity Weak Crisis Financial Excuse Restraint Entrepreneurial Financial Crisis

Author:Rob Portman

“No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.”

“The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.”

Ends Government Finals Restraint

Book:Memoir. Lectures and addresses

Source: Memoir. Lectures and addresses

“If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and power of government to interfere with individual rights or the free market, is a lot different from an ethnic-nationalist, atheistic, and socialist program of genocide and international aggression, you should use this rule of thumb: If someone isn’t advocating the murder of millions of people in gas chambers and a global Reich for the White Man you shouldn’t assume he’s a Nazi and you should know it’s pretty damn evil to call him one.”

“The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be no accountability, no judgment by the people that the power to suppress was wrongly exercised.”

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Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition

Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition

“Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.”

Government Empires Rulers Restraint Royal

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order, and prosperity is a power originally and always belonging to the states, not surrendered to them by the general government, nor directly restrained by the constitution of the United States, and essentially exclusive.”

Persons States Government Order United United States Constitution Property Prosperity Burden Belonging Conservation Restraint Promotion Exclusive Public Health Constitution Of The United States

Author:Melville Fuller