Johnny Kelly Quotes

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and for government to gain ground.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

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

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

We encounter the dilemma of freedom versus authority in all sorts of places but probably nowhere more frequently than in the area of Big Brother's ongoing efforts to protect us from ourselves – efforts that many people view as an invasion of their privacy or as infringement upon their God-given right to be stupid (though they don't usually put it that way).

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost.

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

Personal liberty is not personal license.

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.

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

The Libertarian Party holds that same-sex marriages are an individual issue and that the government has no right to determine with whom a person should have a relationship.

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

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

I don't think I should tell you what to do, nor should the government. As long as you enjoy your own personal liberties and don't infringe on the liberties of others, I don't care.

The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.

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

I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

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

Every law is an evil for every law is an infraction of liberty.