Francis Schaeffer Quotes

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

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.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.

Marxism requires that we destroy God, because government must become God. And the only way for government to become God is to destroy the concept of God.

The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.

[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives.

The government is already into our lives a whole lot more than they should be. If I were president, I'd roll everything back. Everything!

Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'

At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God.

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. This program [Medicare] I promise you will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow. And behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country, until, one day, we will awake to find that we have socialism. And if you don't do this [write letters and call members of Congress], and if I don't do it, one of these days, you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children's children, what it once was like in America when men were free.

A government role in our society should be inherently suspect …. There is something inherently coercive in the nature of government.

Whenever you hear, “it’s for your own good” from the government, you are about to lose some money or freedom. Always!

We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.

We work with whoever is elected. Some will bring a more generous, open view of the world than others.

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

We may first observe that communism and socialism - which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism - cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that postulates a Creator such as the Declaration of Independence recognizes. The slaves of Statism must know no power, no authority, no source of blessing, no God, but the State.

Generally speaking, Rand Paul is been more wrong than right. He has an isolationist view of the world that I don't share.

If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and . . . try freedom.