About This Site

This blog is here to treat on the negative ramifications, in principle and practice, of our government sticking its nose where it doesn't belong. And where doesn't it belong? Let's ask a founding father shall we?

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

– Thomas Jefferson (1781)

A wise and frugal government which shall restrain 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. This is the sum of good government. – Thomas Jefferson (1801)

These quotes sum up the main premise of this site. I feel what Jefferson felt; that the government has one job, and that is to protect people's life, liberty and property from outside harm. Any foray into other aspects of a person's life is absolutely not the government's business. And so we have our title: Separation of Self and State.

A worthy goal.

If only, if only.