Insatiable Government Author:Garet Garrett Insatiable government. Thomas Jefferson had famously said government's appetites were unlimited, and tended always to devour the people's freedom. The other founders thought so, and had attempted to put government in a cage. With the Constitution they did just that, and as long as people agreed on that cage, it held, most of the time. But in the... more » 20th century the thinking of people changed. Crises happened, government demanded to be let out and the people let it out. A columnist and editor for the New York Times and the Saturday Evening Post, Garet Garrett was a journalist of what is now called the Old Right, the precursors of today's Libertarians, and one of his era's staunchest defenders of what he called "limited, constitutional government in the republican form". He had been born under a government like that, in 1978. He died in 1954, in the age of the managed economy and the welfare state. In his lifetime had come the progressives, the New Deal and two world wars. Government had expanded insatiably. INSATIABLE GOVERNMENT is a collection of Garrett's writing over a 28-year period focused on his bedrock idea of the self-reliant individual, and government's penchant for unrestrained growth.« less