Michael O'Donoghue Quotes

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

There is no question that if one were to ask whether we Americans are moving towards more liberty or more government control over our lives, the answer would unambiguously be the latter - more government control over our lives. We might have reached a point where the trend is irreversible and that is a true tragedy for if liberty is lost in America, it will be lost for all times and all places.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things.

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

Government is no sooner created than it becomes too strong for society, and shapes and moulds, as well as controls it.

If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Big government squashes the human spirit

Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.

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

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

The government continues to erode our freedom.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone they know wants maximum freedom and minimum statism.

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.

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.

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

Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.