"There is now a false idealism of turning Government into God, by a vague notion that it gives everything to everybody." -- G.K. Chesterton
When the State creates laws ex nihilo, it is begging to be seen as the Author of everything. When it is the highest authority it knows, it imagines itself a god.
Free men, who do not need the assistance of the government, are in no danger of mistaking it for their Maker, but men dependent on its assistance for anything may come to insist that it is the source of everything. Those who can carry their own loads are not likely to become indebted to those who offer to carry it for them.
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