Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

[People] don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

My freedom is more important than your good idea.

It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people.

We’re not so free that we don’t have to listen to rules, and laws, and regulations. Those are important. But the spirit, the freedom of the spirit, that’s what I think of American Dream, that we are free here to do what we want to do, what we set out to do.

I believe very firmly in the principle of free agency - people making their own decisions and doing what they think is right.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.

I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives.

I don't conjure up ways of denying people freedom. I don't sit around and examine what people do that I don't like and try to figure out ways to get them to stop it, unless we're talking about lawbreakers, of course. But I'm a freedom, liberty, live and let live kind of guy. I might not approve of or like what people do, but have at it.

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

They say the state should not impose on its citizens a preferred way of life, but should leave them as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.