William Jay Gaynor

I am working my way through a collection of essays by Albert Jay Nock titled The Disadvantages of Being Educated and Other Essays. In this wonderful book is an essay about William Jay Gaynor, titled New York's Jeffersonian Mayor. In this essay is a quote from a message that was to be read to all the school children of New York on the Fourth of July. Here goes:

We must therefore be vigilant of every little approach to despotism, however little it may be. We must see to it that those whom we elect to office do not go outside of the laws, or set themselves up above the laws, and do as they please. It has always been the case throughtout the world that the officials who did this did it on the plea that the laws were not good enough; that they could do better than the laws prescribed. Beware of all such officials. We do not want officials who have any lust of power. We want officials who are very careful about exercising power. We want officials who are careful to exercise no power except that given to them by the people by their laws. There is no more dangerous man in a free country, in a democracy, than an official who thinks he is better than the laws. The good man in office should be most careful not to set a bad example or precedent for his bad successor, who will come along sooner or later.

Old and very sage words. Even now we see our supreme leader continuing to gather more and more power and create new bad precedents and in less than 18 months hand that very powerful job with all its new precedents over to ??????

It is time to put a "good man" into our supreme office, a man who will work within the laws prescribed by the people, our constitution. Calling Ron Paul, Calling Ron Paul....