 Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government have been carried through. . . . 
Walt Whitman
http://www.geocities.com/rationalargumentator/Whitman.html
While mere politicians, in their narrow minds, are sweating and fuming with their complicated statutes, this one single rule, rationally construed and applied, is enough to form the starting point of all that is necessary in government: to make no more laws than those useful for preventing a man or body of men from infringing on the rights of other men.
Walt Whitman
Whitman's "Duties of Government:" http://www.geocities.com/rationalargumentator/Whitman.html
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