London 2024 Day Six
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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain
The true theory of our Constitution is surly the wisest and best ... [for] when all government ... shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as ... oppressive as the government from which we separated.
Thomas Jefferson
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
James Madison
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Mark Twain
The true theory of our Constitution is surly the wisest and best ... [for] when all government ... shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as ... oppressive as the government from which we separated.
Thomas Jefferson
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
James Madison
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
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4 comments:
Thanks! It's a great article. And true. Mom's (me included a lot of the time) are scared to death something bad is going to happen to their kids. We used to ride bikes and walk all over the place.
Amen, amen! We are so paranoid it's crazy. Growing up in 1970s Payson, I rode my bike everywhere (up the canyon, all the way out to the lake, etc.) swam, climbed, ran, dug, built and laughed all over the place.
As I've said before, my favorite toy was our cherry tree (which is still there). Set the children free!!
A great piece. It made me nostalgic for my youthful days. We lived in Los Angeles in the 1950s and I went everywhere unsupervised without any fear. That was true for the previous years in Provo where we explored caves and wandered the canyons and mountains without a worry. Once when my brothers dragged my mother to a huge and seemingly dangerous rock where they and my older cousins liked to picnic, she asked them to please never show her where they played again -- but they were not confined to the house.
The world has possibly changed unnecessarily. We all survived without car seats and we drank water from the sprinkler and lived to tell.
I'm not that old and I feel like things have changed drastically. I used to love climbing trees with Kira (until she got impaled by one) and Kadie. We used to walk everywhere. I just remember I needed to be home by dark. Crazy how much has changed in even 10 years. It does make me wonder, though, how different the mainland is from home. I wonder how it would be to raise kids in Waimea today.
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