Our friends at What Would the Founders Think offer this series of quotes from the Founders on the meaning of limited government. Madison, Washington, Jefferson explain the Constitution. Too bad our schools don’t teach this stuff. They are too busy with diversity training, Anti-drug lectures and the whole assortment of politically correct education.
The Founders feared an overly powerful government. Governments govern … which means they exercise power. George Washington may have said it best, “Government is not reason: It is not eloquence, it is Force, like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” James Madison chimed in by adding, “The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”
