President Ford addressed the Annual Dinner Meeting of the Bay Area Council in San Francisco, CA, April 4, 1975: "Over the 25 years that I had the privilege of serving in the House of Representatives ... well-motivated Members of the House of Representatives would get up and argue effectively and convincingly and certainly in the highest motivation for this social program or that social program. Pretty soon, we started to have this proliferation, and believe me, it has proliferated ...
I recall most vividly sitting there on many occasions and thinking to myself, don't they realize that a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take from us everything we have?"
Penn was locked up on London's notorious Newgate Prison, 1670, where he wrote: "By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind ... but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way ..."
This was the warning of George Washington, who stated in his Farewell Address, September 19, 1796: "But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed." Government agencies that were started for good purposes over time accumulated power to become deep-state entities, often with oppressive political agendas.
Republican President Richard Nixon address the League of Women Voters on their 50th Anniversary, April 17, 1969: "A year before the 19th Amendment was adopted the League of Women Voters was founded, and that organization, in the past 50 years, has played a major role in this Nation on a nonpartisan basis ... Since about 1947, a tremendously escalating role of women in politics in the United States ...
As I look around the world and as I find that India has a woman Prime Minister, Ceylon has a woman Prime Minister, Israel has a woman Prime Minister."
Ben Franklin advised: "I would advise you, therefore, not to attempt unchaining the tiger, but to burn this piece before it is seen by any other person ..."
