We are fighting against a bone-headed and unaffordable expansion of government by well-meaning but misguided bureaucrats, not the imposition of socialist tyranny by jack-booted thugs.
Hmmmm . . . .
In the same vein, here are a couple of additional quotes which echo much the same sentiment:
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. - C.S. Louis
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. - SCOTUS Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1928
So the "we know what's best for you" attitudes within the government have been vexing to people who desire liberty for a long time.
In recent history, though he's a bitter old man now, Jimmy Carter probably
was well-meaning as President, just woefully inept and terribly naive. But today, I really am having grave doubts about this administration's sincerity when it comes to doing what's best for us . . . BHO's policies appear to be driven by anger and hatred, are deeply steeped in corruption, leavened with arrogance, and seem to be teetering on the brink of being downright vengeful . . . a dangerous combination.
Remember, all too often the "we know what's best" rhetoric has been used by
real bad guys, and I'm beginning to see signs of that at work here. (Think of Benito "he made the trains run on time" Mussolini, Karl Marx, and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.)