Life isn't fair, but government must be.
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.
Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly.
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.
That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer.
It is simply a matter of treating each man, rich or poor, on his merits, and making him feel that at the White House, which is the Nation's property, all reputable citizens of the nation are sure of like treatment.
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.
Give members of Congress a sense of equity in your administration.
I want a smaller government, yes, but I want a government that will be fair.
That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations.
