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Ronald Reagan | As government expands, liberty contracts

“When you’ve got to the point when you can celebrate the anniversaries of your 39th birthday you can sit back sometimes, review your life, and see it flowing before you. For me there was a fork in the river, and it was right in the middle of my life. I never meant to go into politics. It wasn’t my intention when I was young. But I was raised to believe you had to pay your way for the blessings bestowed on you. I was happy with my career in the entertainment world, but I ultimately went into politics because I wanted to protect something precious.

Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: “We the People.” “We the People” tell the government what to do; it doesn’t tell us. “We the People” are the driver; the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world’s constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which “We the People” tell the government what it is allowed to do. “We the People” are free. This belief has been the underlying basis for everything I’ve tried to do these past 8 years.

But back in the 1960’s, when I began, it seemed to me that we’d begun reversing the order of things — that through more and more rules and regulations and confiscatory taxes, the government was taking more of our money, more of our options, and more of our freedom. I went into politics in part to put up my hand and say, “Stop.” I was a citizen politician, and it seemed the right thing for a citizen to do.

I think we have stopped a lot of what needed stopping. And I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”

Ronald Reagan

“Unsere Revolution war die erste in der Geschichte der Menschheit, die den Lauf der Regierung wirklich umkehrte – und das mit drei kleinen Worten: “Wir, das Volk.”
“Wir, das Volk” sagen der Regierung, was sie tun soll – nicht umgekehrt. “Wir, das Volk” sitzen am Steuer, die Regierung ist das Auto. Und wir entscheiden, wohin es fährt, welchen Weg es nimmt und wie schnell.

Fast alle Verfassungen der Welt sind Dokumente, in denen die Regierung den Menschen sagt, welche Rechte sie haben. Unsere Verfassung jedoch ist ein Dokument, in dem “Wir, das Volk” der Regierung sagen, was sie tun darf. “Wir, das Volk” sind frei.
Dieser Glaube war die Grundlage für alles, was ich in den letzten acht Jahren zu erreichen versucht habe.

Doch in den 1960er-Jahren, als ich anfing, hatte ich das Gefühl, dass wir die Dinge ins Gegenteil verkehrt hatten. Durch immer mehr Regeln, Vorschriften und erdrückende Steuern nahm die Regierung uns mehr Geld, mehr Möglichkeiten und mehr Freiheit.

Ich ging in die Politik, um meine Hand zu heben und zu sagen: “Stopp!”
Ich war ein Bürger, ein Politiker aus Überzeugung – und es schien mir das Richtige zu tun.

Ich denke, wir haben vieles von dem gestoppt, was gestoppt werden musste. Und ich hoffe, wir haben die Menschen daran erinnert, dass der Mensch nicht frei ist, wenn die Regierung keine Grenzen hat.

Es gibt hier einen klaren Zusammenhang, so eindeutig und vorhersehbar wie ein Naturgesetz: Wenn die Regierung wächst, schrumpft die Freiheit.”

Autor:Ronald Reagan|Anarchy, Consciousness, Democracy, Feudalism, Politics, Slavery, Society, Staat
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