Dennis Prager Government Quotations

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.

If you ask what's best for the country, vote Republican. If you ask how will you get more money from the government, vote Democrat

Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States

It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent

What generations created, the Left destroys. There are few productive and noble institutions in America that the Left has not hurt or attempted to hurt. But while the Left destroys a great deal, it constructs almost nothing (outside of government agencies, laws, and lawsuits).

By definition, the moment one crosses from center to left, one accepts more government control of people's lives. Therefore, the further left society moves, the more there is government control over its citizens' lives. It is astonishing that this obvious fact is not universally acknowledged and that the Left has somehow successfully portrayed itself as preoccupied with personal liberty.

The bigger the government, the less the citizens do for one another. If the state will take care of me and my neighbors, why should I? This is why Western Europeans, people who have lived in welfare states far longer than Americans have, give less to charity and volunteer less time to others than do Americans of the same socioeconomic status.

Leftist big-government policies have been disastrous for black America just as they were in the countries that most Hispanics emigrated from. But like the gambling addict who keeps gambling the more he loses, those addicted to government entitlements keep increasing the size of the government even as their situation worsens.

Big government squashes the human spirit

Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?

God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?

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

Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents

The bigger the government, the greater the corruption