Words To Heed

Where have we heard this before?

But our situation is represented to be so critically dreadful, that, however reprehensible and exceptionable the proposed plan of government may be, there is no alternative, between the adoption of it and absolute ruin.

My fellow citizens, things are not at that crisis; it is the argument of tyrants.

– Samuel Bryan ["Centinel," Number 1, Oct. 5, 1787, "Anti-Federalist Papers," ratification of the Constitution]

Now we are hearing the same old argument from Paulson and Bernake. Should we believe them?

My fellow citizens, things are not at that crisis; it is the argument of tyrants.

These are the words to heed, not those of Paulson and Bernake.