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Thu Jul 30, 2009 at 00:00 AM CDT
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| "The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities. In all that people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere. ... |
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| "[This] embraces all which in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased and the machinery of government itself.
"From this appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government."
Abraham Lincoln, July 1, 1854 |
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