Such is the case, * when it imposes on me its theology or philosophy; * when it prescribes for me, or interdicts, a cult; * when it assumes to regulate my ways and habits, * when it assumes to limit my labor or expenditure, * when it assumes to direct the education of my children, * when it assumes to fix the prices of my wares or the rate of my wages.
For then, to enforce its commands and prohibitions, it enacts light or serious penalties against the recalcitrant, all the way from political or civil incapacity to fines, imprisonment, exile and the guillotine.
In other words, the money I do not owe it, and of which it robs me, pays for the persecution which it inflicts upon me; I am reduced to paying out of my own purse the wages of my inquisitors, my jailer and my executioner.

A more glaring oppression could not be imagined!--Let us watch out for the encroachments of the State and not allow it to become anything more than a watch-dog.

Whilst the teeth and nails of other guests in the household have been losing their sharpness, its fangs have become formidable; it is now colossal and it alone still keeps up the practice of fighting.

Let us supply it with nourishment against wolves; but never let it touch peaceable folks around the table.

Appetite grows by eating; it would soon become a wolf itself, and the most ravenous wolf inside the fold.