What time and place do you think was this quote is from ?

http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/governmen...

Jefferson's comment, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild, and government to gain ground."

Gerald R. Ford...said, "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have," in an address to a joint session of Congress on August 12, 1974.

I would guess Cicero in ancient Rome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero

If not that, 1965 when a casket was carried through the streets of San Francisco to symbolically bury "The Hippie"....everything Hippie after that was just posing.

Or maybe 1970 Kent State when National Guard troops shot college protesters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-w_V0ikniA&feature...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

Or perhaps 1917 Russia.

Few know that USA sent troops to help what turned out to be the losing side.

http://www.criticalenquiry.org/history/polarbear.s...

So I guess getting involved in a land war in Asia really is one of the 7 classic blunders.

Ayn Rand made that quote, in her “The Nature of Government,” from The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand. December 1963

Ayn Rand.

I looked it up :P

...but to my credit, I thought it sounded like something Andrew Ryan, from the game Bioshock, would say - who was based on Ayn Rand.

Sounds like the words of a deranged old Russian bag-lady ranting on a street corner with a shopping-bag full of soiled bandages.

1930s US i'll guess

today, obama.