Rick Perry Quotes

In several short years, Obama has fundamentally shifted the balance away from the individual and toward government, and has altered the national psyche from self-reliance to ever-growing reliance on government.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

… creeping collectivism

It's about food. It's about your home. It's about your life. The government is worried about all of the above. All I'm saying is you should be worried they're worried. Here's why: They're telling you that you can't take care of yourself. You can't be trusted with what you put in your mouth or what you sign on the mortgage dotted line. So they'll tell you what to put in your mouth and they'll save you from what you signed on that dotted line. Does anyone see a trend here? Personal responsibility has now become government responsibility.

There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives

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

Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates more Democrats.

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.

War is just one more big government program.

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.

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

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

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

In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.

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

There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. ... The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose.

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Big government squashes the human spirit

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.

To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government. We can have a free society or a welfare state. We cannot have both.

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

As government expands, liberty contracts.

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.