The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
Author: Greg Raven
Free minds and free markets.
Tyranny and oppression
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
Why leaders go to war
War is, in fact, the true nurse of executive aggrandizement.
‘Discretionary’ spending
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
Banking control over government
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance.
Abuse of government power
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
The problem with socialism
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
Loss of liberty
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
Abuse of power
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
Silent encroachments
Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.