The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.
The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic.
States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
There is a danger in democracy itself.
Individual people shouldn't be fearful, because by and large our government, the federal government - people always talk; obviously, they don't trust the feds, whatever. The federal government and local communities have done a pretty good job at keeping us safe.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.