Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Government must continue to live within its means.
If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
So government acts as a safeguard of our property.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.
Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore.
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.