Sunday, February 21, 2010

Prophecy of the day

From the Address and Reasons of Dissent of the Minority of the Convention of Pennsylvania to their Constituents (one of the Anti-Federalist Papers):

As this government will not enjoy the confidence of the people, but be executed by force, it will be a very expensive and burthensome government. The standing army must be numerous, and as a further support, it will be the policy of this government to multiply officers in every department: judges, collectors, taxgatherers, excisemen and the whole host of revenue officers will swarm over the land, devouring the hard earnings of the industrious. Like the locusts of old, impoverishing and desolating all before them.

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