There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only object of good government.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
A wise and frugal Government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God not from government.
And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread not for our government.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor when to God who is the searcher of our hearts all our privacies are open?
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.