Attention: Presidential candidates and Congressmen

A quote to remember from the First Inaugural Address of Ronaldus Magnus in 1981, courtesy of Consent Of The Governed:

"We are a nation that has a government—not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed."