"“The paradox is that making an extensive welfare state a prerequisite for democracy has the effect of delegitimizing democratic deliberation about the welfare state. Voices and votes against it become subversive and undemocratic; democracy’s ability to make a difference contracts as the list of democracy’s prerequisites expands.” Ronald Reagan - "Man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts."