Sonny Perdue Quotes

People are probably going to realize they can live with a lot less government than what they thought they needed.

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

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?

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

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

A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

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

Government is but A TRUSTEE--for public, not for private purposes. You must trust your own manhood. You must trust your own foresight, and lay up against a rainy day. You must be educated by hardship, if need be. Government did not beget you, and is not responsible for you save against injustice

The real question is, at the end of the day, do we want to run our country? Are we proud of who we are? Are we happy to be just a star on somebody else's flag, or do we want to be an independent nation?

I want to help people help themselves, not have government tell people what to do. I just don't think it's the role of the United States to walk into a country and say, we do it this way, so should you.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.

A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.

I don't need government to be successful.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.

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

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

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

People still seem to think that they should vote themselves money. They seem to think there is stuff which they think is the government's job, when it's really the individual's job.