...when all government... in little as in great things, shall be
drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render
powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will
become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we
separated.
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1821
Still one more thing, fellow citizens: a wise and frugal
governme which shall refrain men from injuring one another,
which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own
pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the
mouth of labor the bread it has earned....