Quotessence
Home / Topics / Big Government Quotes

Big Government Quotes

Browse 198 quotes about Big Government.

Related topics

PeopleNeedsLibertyTaxesBelieveThinkingRepublicanConservativeCountryKnowsIfsLibertarianPartyPresidentWantBig BusinessPolicyProblemSpendingGuyLibertarianismStatesTryingWayYears

Big Government Quotes

“Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention has been welcomed by the captains of finance and industry. They had no quarrel with "big government" when it served their needs.”

NeedsHas BeensBigsGovernmentFacesReligionEconomyAtheismIndustryHistoricalAtheistFinanceCaptainsFree MarketQuarrelsInterventionBig GovernmentAnti ReligiousGovernment InterventionHistorical Truth
Author:Howard Zinn
Create image

“What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity, progress, harmony, and morality. Thanks to big government, we have significantly less of all of those good things than we would if we had been able to keep government right-sized. Big government is cancerous. Like a cancer, it hurts the body and tends to spread, doing more and more harm as it grows. It is time for some radical surgery.”

IfsBodyBigsGovernmentAbleGrowsHurtLibertyProgressMoralityHarmonyGood ThingsCancerProsperitySpreadHarmLibertarianThanksRadicalLibertarianismIt HurtsSurgeryBig GovernmentIndictment
Author:George Leef
Create image

“Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation which defies central management and control. Not only is the United States too big, but it has also become too authoritarian and too undemocratic, and its states assume too little responsibility for the solution of their own social, economic, and political problems.”

LittlesStatesProblemBigsGovernmentPoliticalNationsSocialUnitedCitiesResponsibilityLibertyUnited StatesEconomicMilitarySolutionsLaborManagementAssumingLibertarianCombinationLibertarianismBig BusinessBig GovernmentBig CitiesMega
Author:Thomas Naylor
Create image

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."”

HelpingGovernmentLanguageConservativeNineSocialismLiberalismConservatismEnglish LanguageFascistsLimited GovernmentBig GovernmentGovernment ProgramsGreat Veterans DayRepublican GovernmentTakeoversGovernment And SocietyOne Nation Under GodCommunism And SocialismLearning EnglishPolitical JokesGreat ConservativeGovernment Welfare
Book:Ronald Reagan
Create image

“Jim Greenfield’s The Taxman Cometh will undoubtedly put a smile on the face of even the most dedicated big government freeloader. In the ‘Everyone Deserves a Trophy’ society we live in, it’s refreshing to know that Jim’s literary voice will cut through the politics, using the American spirit of a used car dealer.”

KnowsBigsGovernmentFacesUsedSpiritVoiceCuttingCarDeserveDedicatedDealerTrophiesRefreshingBig GovernmentAmerican SpiritUsed CarCar Dealer
Author:Lars Larson
Create image

“There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems – including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity – than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.”

WayProblemBigsGovernmentLossApproachEnvironmentalIncludingGlobal WarmingRegulationPlasticUrbanTreatiesBig GovernmentBiodiversityProliferationTacklingTop DownEnvironmental ProblemsUrban Sprawl
Author:Preston Manning
Create image

“As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis of its authoritarian social program. Indeed, according to Bertram Gross in his startlingly prescient Friendly Fascism (1980), it is possible to achieve fascist goals within an ostensibly democratic society.”

BigsGovernmentPoliticalSocialGoalEconomicAchieveProgramDemocraticAnalysisFriendlyAgendasHistorianFascismPartnershipGrossFascistsBig GovernmentDemocratic SocietyTheoristsSocial Programs
Author:Richard Heinberg
Create image

“The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.”

MeanBigsRealityGovernmentEconomyGenerationsEvolutionLaborTablesNotionWork OutGatheringDinosaursNew GenerationBig BusinessBig GovernmentMammalsVarianceAmerican Economy
Author:Bruce Babbitt
Create image

“Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.”

PeopleHomeBigsGovernmentCarePoliticalChoicesFallOpportunityPoliticsToo MuchFailingCarDrinkEconomicsHealth CareGuaranteesCracksProvisionMessyFree SocietyPrudentRelievedBig GovernmentBenignTiresome
Author:Mark Steyn
Create image

“The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital - and that's before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems.”

HumansBigsGovernmentLeftGrowthEconomicEuropePopulationFavorsWelfareMutualProgressiveCollapseHuman HistoryEconomic GrowthPlungePrecedentBig GovernmentPopulation ControlIncompatibility
Book:America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
Create image

“We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills, except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores. … And if they deem Soviet power a menace to our freedom (as I happen to), they will have to support large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the attendant centralization of power in Washington-even with Truman at the reins of it all.”

IfsWarBigsGovernmentHappensEnergyGivenForceAcceptingSupportAirSkillsArmyInstrumentsProductionsBoardsShoreSovietOffensiveBureaucracyMenaceDurationReinsBig GovernmentAir ForceTrumanCentralizationAtomic Energy
Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
Create image

“Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.”

LooksShowsBigsGovernmentSupportClearTaxesPercentCapitalismPatternsDataEnterpriseConsistentBig GovernmentFree Enterprise
Book:The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future
Create image

“Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing of civilian population centers, the Berlin Wall, nuclear explosions, the post office. A wicked individual might want these, but he wouldn't have the cash and connections to get them. A villainous corporation could afford them but has to market the products. The Vietnam draft would be a tough sell for even the most fiendish businessmen. "Get shot! Get killed! Get diseases from foreign women who despise you in their hearts!"”

ThinkingWorldWantHeartTwoWarBigsGovernmentMightWould BeIndividualCenturyProductsWallOfficeDiseaseShotsToughConnectionsSellsPopulationNuclearPostsCorporationsWar Of The WorldsWickedVietnamDespiseCashHolocaustBusinessmanExplosionsCiviliansBerlinBombingBig GovernmentTwo WorldsPost OfficeBerlin WallGulags
Author:P. J. O'Rourke
Create image

“Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that redistributes trillions of dollars. We can hardly be surprised when countless special interests fight for the money. The only true solution to the campaign money problem is a return to a proper constitutional government that does not control the economy. Big government and big campaign money go hand-in-hand.”

DoeProblemHandsBigsGovernmentFightingInterestEconomySpecialReturnSolutionsDollarsCampaignsRepublicSocialistFederal GovernmentHand In HandSpecial InterestsBig GovernmentLeviathanConstitutional GovernmentMoney Problem
Author:Ron Paul
Create image

“The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but big government. The income tax has given us a government bureaucracy that outnumbers the manufacturing work force. It has created welfare dependencies that have entrapped millions of Americans in an underclass that is forced to live a sordid existence of trading votes for government handouts.”

BigsGovernmentAmericaGivenForcePoorExistenceMillionsRichTaxesVoteIncomeWelfareBureaucracyTradingManufacturingIncome TaxDependencyBig GovernmentBeneficiariesHandoutsGovernment Bureaucracy
Author:Paul Craig Roberts
Create image

“When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed the failure of big government to provide for the collective good, you spoke of self-reliance, of personal responsibility, of individual pride and integrity. When others preached compromise - when others demanded compromise, you, Ronald Reagan, preached conviction.”

NeedsWarSelfBigsGovernmentIndividualResponsibilityPrideColdIntegrityConvictionCompromiseWarriorCollectivesSpokesCold WarSelf RelianceReliancePersonal ResponsibilityBig GovernmentPeace Through StrengthCollective Good
Author:Margaret Thatcher
Create image

“We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.”

WorldRealBigsGovernmentViewsOpinionFeministExtremesThese DaysAbortionReal WorldSpectrumPrivate SectorBig GovernmentFree TradeTradersAnti AbortionPro Abortion
Author:Michael Crichton
Create image

“Look, this debate is basic: it's small government vs. big government. So how cowardly do folks like Blood and Frank Rich have to be that they can't man up and defend their love for collectivism? The only reason they scream race, is because that debate scares them. They know a racial accusation prevents dialogue, because such a harmful charge far outweighs any benefits of winning an argument.”

KnowsMenLooksReasonBigsGovernmentPoliticsWinningRaceRichBloodBenefitsArgumentFolksDebateDialogueScareScreamFrankCowardlyCollectivismAccusationBig GovernmentSmall GovernmentWinning An Argument
Author:Greg Gutfeld
Create image

“Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed towards our species goal: Space Migration, which in turn offers the only way to re-attain individual freedom of space-time and the small-group social structures which obviously best suit our nervous systems. It is another paradox of neuro-genetics that only in space habitats can humanity return to the village life and pastoral style for which we all long.”

WayLongBigsGovernmentHumanityTurnsIndividualSocialGoalSpaceEffortGroupsStyleReturnWalkingOffersMoonStructureSpeciesCampaignsDespiteNervousSuitsParadoxVillageRhetoricBureaucracyGeneticsMigrationNervous SystemStar GazingBig BusinessBig GovernmentSmall GroupsHabitatIndividual FreedomSpace TimeSocial StructureCentralizationVillage Life
Book:Neuropolitique
Create image