Take Note Canada!

Summary "Lifted" from:
http://hackwilson.blogspot.ca/2012/09/democrats-government-is-only-thing-we.html

This is well worth some thought when applied to our Canadian Government!

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite."
---James Madison

"Most bad government has grown out of too much government."
---Thomas Jefferson

"I think we have more machinery of government than is
necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the
industrious."
---Thomas Jefferson

"When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny." 
---Thomas Jefferson

"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."
---Thomas Jefferson

"There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
---James Madison

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

---Patrick Henry

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." 

--- George Washington

"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity."

---Thomas Jefferson

"This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."   

---Thomas Jefferson

"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare… The powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America."

---Alexander Hamilton

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

---Thomas Jefferson

"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions."

---James Madison

"The utopian schemes of leveling [redistribution of wealth], and a community of goods, are as visionary and impracticable as those that vest all property in the Crown. [These ideas] are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government, unconstitutional."

---Samuel Adams

 "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

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have." 

---Thomas Jefferson

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

---Thomas Jefferson

"That government is best which governs least."

---Thomas Paine