RNS Quote of the Day: 11/30/09

Filed under: Quote of the Day — Phil at 6:48 am on Monday, November 30, 2009

And we’ll end the month of November with the very meaningful and, sadly, largely forgotten quote.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution … or have failed their purpose … or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is ‘needed’ before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ ‘interests,’ I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty, and in that cause I am doing the very best I can.

Barry Goldwater - The Conscience of a Conservative

That link is to a book. That book should be in your home and in your memory.

I found the link to the book here. That post should also be in your memory.

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