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“The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.”
Frederic Bastiat
“When you look up in the sky at night and see that one star shining brightly, You know that a friend somewhere is missing you.”
Madelin M.
“I am the silent lion who is now awake, who will not remain silent when evil has spoken, I am the American voter.”
Randy Hines
“Peace is not a state of nature. It is an effort done by the living.”
Toba Beta
“School is no place for kids.”
Andrea Fleming
“There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments... --I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.”
Alexander Hamilton
“The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a direct representation in the Senate, and leaves in their possession certain exclusive and very important portions of sovereign power. This fully corresponds, in every rational import of the terms, with the idea of a federal government.”
“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition.”
Thomas Jefferson
“But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States.”
“But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm... But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity.”
James Madison
