In the APCW Perspectives Magazine due out in Amsterdam, we have an interview with Goodlattes Legislative Director, Branden Ritchie.
I won’t go into details (you gotta read the magazine), but in the layout of the article I listed famous quotes from great Americans that apply to this subject:
“In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. ”
~ George Washington
“If it becomes popular and everyone is doing it, then it’s not the job of government to prohibit it.”
~ Fiorello LaGuardia
“In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people their superiors…”
~ Benjamin Franklin
“Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors…”
~ Thomas Jefferson
“America is supposed to be the bastion of freedom, yet we thrive on prohibition.”
~ Jesse Ventura
“A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master”
~ George Washington