Steve Forbes Quotes

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone they know wants maximum freedom and minimum statism.

We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

The greatest threat to our freedom is an all powerful federal government.

We can restore liberty by taking government out of our bedrooms, our bloodstreams, our bladders, our brains, our businesses and our back-pockets.

Fox News Latino will show people how opportunities exist, that whenever we are overregulated, or there is too much government, we lose freedom. We lose power. That is, historically, one hundred percent true.

Government has gotten too big, and it's infringed on our liberty and freedom.

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

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.

Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways.

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

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

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.