John Stossel Quotes

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

Government has gotten too big, and it's infringed on our liberty and freedom.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

The government is already into our lives a whole lot more than they should be. If I were president, I'd roll everything back. Everything!

I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

There exists in modem America the necessity for protecting all of us from arbitrary action by governments more powerful and more pervasive than any in our ancestors’ time.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

These are people who don't believe the government can possibly get too big. It's not possible for it to get too big. It's not possible for the government to get too powerful. It's not possible. And yet they are worried at the 'New York Times' about what is happening to it under the guidance of the presidency and Mr. Obama.

As government grows, freedom recedes.

The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach - is that the greatest threat to our lives, liberty, property, and security is not some foreign government, as our rulers so often tell us. The greatest threat to our freedom and well-being lies with our own government!.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

Be most on guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

The greatest threat to our freedom is an all powerful federal government.

Every amendment which I am convinced will have the tendency to lesson the danger of civil liberty by the central government will receive my sincere approbation.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives

The Constitution is not about restricting the people; it is about restricting the government.

Conservatives have deep distrust of government power, so I not only understand their privacy concerns, I share them.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.