I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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