[lit-ideas] Re: Ye Olde Dialectic

  • From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:34:54 -0400

Phil: But from where do we get the idea that government is supposed to do all things excepting the things it can be shown to not be able to do?


Eric: Abraham Lincoln said that. I'll look for the complete quote and attribution. Something to the effect that "government should do for people that which they cannot do for themselves."


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