I Have Little Interest In Streamlining Government

Small Men, Seeking Great Wealth Or Power, Have Too Often And Too Long Turned Even The Highest Levels Of Public Service Into Mere Personal Opportunity.

Any Pilot Can Describe The Mechanics Of Flying. What It Can Do For The Spirit Of Man Is Beyond Description.

Those Who Seek Absolute Power, Even Though They Seek It To Do What They Regard As Good, Are Simply Demanding The Right To Enforce Their Own Version Of Heaven On Earth. And Let Me Remind You, They Are The Very Ones Who Always Create The Most Hellish Tyrannies. Absolute Power Does Corrupt, And Those Who Seek It Must Be Suspect And Must Be Opposed.

...this Bill Will Require The Creation Of A Federal Police Force Of Mammoth Proportions. It Also Bids Fair To Result In The Development Of An 'informer' Psychology In Great Areas Of Our National Life-neighbors Spying On Neighbors, Workers Spying On Workers, Business Spying On Businessmen-were Those Who Would Harass Their Fellow Citizens For Selfish And Narrow Purposes Will Have Ample Inducement To Do So. These, The Federal Police Force An 'informer' Psychology, Are The Hallmarks Of The Police State And Landmarks In The Destruction Of A Free Society.

If Everybody In This Town Connected With Politics Had To Leave Town Because Of Chasing Women And Drinking, You Would Have No Government.