Janice Rogers Brown Quotes

There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

The bottom line is that we cannot sit idle as unparalleled rules and regulations significantly restrict our rights and ability to care for our families.

We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.

Is there anything in the existing condition that makes the duty of Congress to put the liberty of all the people of the United States in jeopardy?... Are we going to take up the question of what a man shall eat and what a man shall drink, and put him under severe penalties if he is eating or drinking something different from what the chemists of the Agricultural Department think desirable?

The state can destroy families, but it can rarely save families.

Free enterprise and the market economy mean war; socialism and planned economy mean peace. We must plan civilization or we must perish.

When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup

I fear that unless the general government will assume the responsibility of order throughout the land, the anarchy which is now present will become more terrible than has ever been known in the history of the world.

The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivalry of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in fine, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise.

The state doesn’t own your children. The parents do.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

Internal security means something. It means war against your own population.

The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise.

I think a major reason why intellectuals tend to move towards collectivism is that the collectivist answer is a simple one. If there's something wrong, pass a law and do something about it.

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.

The term "Socialism" becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of communal control at the expense of the family and individual freedom.

The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. Hence the new name 'leaders' for those who were once 'rulers'. We are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. There is nothing left of which we can say to them, 'Mind your own business.' Our whole lives are their business.

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.