Quotes About Fear

There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.

The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.

I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night.

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.