John Stossel Giving Quotations

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.

Give me safety, or give me death.

The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing them to seize another 16 percent of the economy won't solve our problems. Freedom will.

Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.