Pat Robertson Quotes

Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Do not have any doubt that I will apply the law over whoever is responsible for not complying with the law.

Fines have to be incentives to enforce the law. We cannot allow them to become just another cost of doing business

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

To use government interference as a weapon to try to enforce one’s personal moral standards on other people is wrong … I have never been able to understand how one could be a conservative and also say that government ought to be imposing itself into private decisions by consumers.

The prison is the state writ small.

The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories—with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe—but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.

You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.

If harsher laws are put in place, less will dare to break them.

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.

Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no matter how many guns you have.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

The bill is emblematic of the attempt by the majority party to control every aspect of our lives.

The American dream is under attack because our government has been hijacked by the Liberals in Washington DC.

Punishment follows close on crime.

Just remember, stealing's punishable by death

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

Liberals don't love big government because they think it's efficient, compassionate, fair or even remotely useful. They support big government because they are guaranteed the support of nearly everyone who works for the government.