Alan Wilson Quotes

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.

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

Top-down government programs threaten to limit the freedom and opportunity that made this country great.

[People] don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.

If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us?

I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

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

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!

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.

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

At some point, the government expands into the private sphere so far that you live in a place with a whole lot less freedom. I didn't like that that was the direction of travel for our country, and decided to come to Washington to try and be a small part of bringing it back.

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

The American people believe that we ought to control our government. On the other hand, we've seen government more and more controlling us

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?

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Who are a free people? Not those over whom government is exercised, but those who live under a government so constitutionally checked and controlled that proper provision is made against its being otherwise exercised

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

Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind