"The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairsof cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivalryof schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition,and there is great danger that our people will lose our independenceof thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, andsink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects hisgovernment to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribewhen his child may be born and when he may die, and, in time, to regulateevery act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the mannerin which he may seek future admission to paradise." ---MarkTwain (http://PatriotPost.US/histdocs/quotes/twain.asp)