State Expansion Quotes

Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the State is profoundly and inherently anticapitalist.

Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.

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.

There is nothing new about the sudden enthusiasm for aggressive government intervention during a health crisis. Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state.

State Creation: A growth Industry.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.

You annex foreign land, not your own country.

We are firm on bringing the Navodaya schools to T.N. and if need arises we will not hesitate to agitate.

The state which is regarded as the instrument for universalizing a certain religion must perforce be an ever expanding state. The Islamic state, whose principal function was to put God’s law into practice, sought to establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire world….The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.

Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic president has to do to finish Bush's hard work is to raise taxes to pay for it all.