Vaccine Mandates Quotes

When some states introduced mandatory smallpox vaccinations during the epidemic of 1898-1903, Americans resisted by the thousands. The ensuing battles produced medical conventions and case law that altered the balance between government authority and medical practice, in favor of federal control.

As an OB-GYN physician, I understand the importance of protecting Americans from sexually transmitted diseases, and I applaud the development of an HPV vaccine. But for states to mandate vaccination for young women is both unprecedented and unacceptable.

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

People think they're making individual decisions for themselves and their family not to get vaccinated. It's not just an individual choice - you're a hazard to society.

I'm very pro vaccine. I get all six of my kids vaccinated. I believe vaccines save millions of lives, and people ought to be getting vaccinated.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

I'm very much in favor of vaccinations, and I've been very vocal about that because it's insane to forgo this.

I don't want to see a weakening of guns laws or the relaxation of vaccinations.

There's a cultural expectation that everyone will be immunized, in part to protect the entire population. When people refuse that expectation, they're indulging in a certain kind of political or social immunity.