Originally Posted by
rgburrill
Pure, unadulterated bullcrap..
So no one has to lobby Congress, they just take care of you? Sitting in your mom's basement picking your nose may work for you, but the freedoms you do enjoy were provided to you by far better men than yourself.
- "There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
-- James Madison, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention [June 16, 1788]
- "A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."
--John Adams in a Letter to Abigail Adams (July 7, 1775)