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Tag: Edmund A. Opitz

(1914-2006) American minister, author

Limited government

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.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 24, 2015November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories Constitution, governmentTags Edmund A. Opitz

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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