Good Intentions

I truely believe our government is well-meaning and has our best interests at heart. Unfortunately this is extremely dangerous.

Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

-Daniel Webster

They honestly feel that they are doing what is best for America.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

-Louis Brandeis (1928)

To continue their great work it is essential that they remain in power.

In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty.

-Leo Tolstoy

Both parties share this feeling. They know what is best for us, and therefore will do whatever it takes to hold or regain power, since the end will justify the means.

When the government’s boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence.

-Gary Lloyd

And while this goes on, most Americans continue in an almost pathalogical belief that they are the most free people on the planet; that they shall always be the most free; and that their freedom can never be taken (or given) away because they are, well, Americans..

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

-Goethe

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
- James Madison

Good intentions do not equal good government, and freedom is most often restricted "for our own protection" by well-meaning people. Examine what is being done, not who is doing it. Ask yourself "what is the result?" not "what is the intent?".