"The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private
affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble,
through the rivaly of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain
official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will
lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much
of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or
German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him
when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die,
and, in time, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the
tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to
paradise." | by: | Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American author and humorist |
Source: | The Twainian, Nov., 1943 "Official Physic", p. 5 [newsletter of the Mark Twain Association] |
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