Is It Any Wonder…
Friday, June 08, 2007 7:31 AM
…that the Leftinistra desire, LUST over, the rewriting of our Framers?
“But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm… But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity.”
– James Madison (Federalist No. 46, 29 January 1788)
A VERY similar sentiment here:
Power and deceit are tools of statecraft, yes. But remember that power deludes the ones who wield it — making them believe it can overcome the defects of their ignorance.
Count Flambert Mutelli, early speech in Landsraad Hall of Oratory
Dune: House Harkonnen
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