Re: The first stake was driven into Obama's heart tonight -- There will be 2 more
Interesting quotes like this here
http://www.freerepublic.com/~americanophile/
government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."
-- James Madison
"?I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.? -Thomas Jefferson
"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." -Vladimir Lenin
"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin." -James Monroe
and my favorite author who knew knew this around 1853;
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money...Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.?? - Alexis de Tocqueville