Such a tyrannical future where
property rights would be ignored, where a massive standing army would lurk
unchangeable, where Congressmen would hold office for life, where ruinous
treaties would be commonplace, where Presidential powers would make Nero
jealous, where gold and silver would vanish from circulation to be replaced by
the worthless "notes" of a private banking conglomeration, where the States
would be reduced to mere administrative departments of the feds, and where the
grasp of taxation would actually reach into the common laborer's paycheck -
all this was too fantastic to be even theoretically contemplated during the
ratification debates - Kenneth W. Royce (Hologram of
Liberty)