“As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience, reminding Americans of what the founders had hoped they would be and thereby providing a vivifying counterpoint to the excesses of materialist individualism.” Would BePurposeIndividualNationsSimpleConscienceProgramMythExcessIndividualismProvidingFoundersSimple LifeRemindingSimple Living Author:David Shi
“Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.” TwoWisdomGovernmentSpiritPoliticsIndividualEconomyDemocracyExtremesInequalityLiberalismExcessConquestAristocracyDespotismDemocracies Have Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good.” GovernmentEvilIndividualCan DoRolesRightsModernEffectsSafetyIndependenceSecureProtestExcessDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceModern SocietyNecessary EvilRole Of Government Author:Gerald R. Ford