WILLIAM J. FEDERER: rights from a Creator. French Revolution you get rights from the group. And what the group giveth, the group can taketh awayeth.

Thank you to William J. Federer.

So it all comes down to one thing: rights from a Creator.  French Revolution you get rights from the group.  The social compact, the social contract.  What we all agree upon, okay, the media controls what everybody thinks.  So all you got to do is be a wealthy person that controls the media and you can control the country.  But our Founders said, no.  Rights come from a creator, and the government's job is to protect my Creator-given rights.  If there is no creator, your rights come from the group.  And what the group giveth, the group can taketh awayeth.

 

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from David Gordon at the Mises Institute, 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, influenced the French Revolution with his political philosophy and his social contract theory. The perspective of many of today’s environmentalists can be traced back to Rousseau, espousing that all degenerates are in man’s hands. The Social Contract (1972), his most important work, outlines the basis for a legitimate political order within a framework of classical republicanism.

JAMES MADISON: Charity is no part of the Legislative duty of the Government

Davy Crockett said, 

Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member on this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity.  But as members of Congress, we have no right to appropriate a dollar of money as charity.  

Calvin Coolidge said this, 

It does not follow that because something ought to be done, the national government ought to do it.  

Random but common complaints,

"But we need to take care of the poor."  Yes, we do, but it's not the government's job. 

"We need to help the immigrants."  Yes, we do but it's not the government's job.  

Gerald Ford said, 

People say why don't you expand that program and spend more federal money?  I look them in the eye and say, you realize that a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take from us everything we have

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Thanks to William J. Federer.

From The American Minute.  "Not Yours To Give," Davy Crockett, Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader, compiled by Bettina B. Greaves (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1975).