George W. Bush Quotes

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

No, our greatness does not come from our government.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.

You came out of your mother’s belly without government. You have lived so far without the help of government …. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well looked upon?

Unless men are taught to rely upon themselves they can never be truly worthy of the name of freemen.

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone.

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

I don't need government to be successful.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.