Top Nanny State Quotes

What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced society is not, strictly speaking, a political one, that is today, it is not concerned with human beings...

What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced society is not, strictly speaking, a political one, that is today, it is not concerned with human beings...

W.H. Auden

Tags: coercion, collectivism, doctors, free markets, freedom, health care, laissez faire, libertarian, liberty, medicine

…being specific is the essence of lawmaking and the whole difference between having a Congress and having a mom.

P.J. O'Rourke

…being specific is the essence of lawmaking and the whole difference between having a Congress and having a mom.

P.J. O'Rourke

Tags: lawmaking, nanny state

A nanny state is hostile to liberty. Any attempt to institute or continue it should be opposed, root and branch. Government intervention is never the solution; it is always part of the problem.

Laurence M. Vance

A nanny state is hostile to liberty. Any attempt to institute or continue it should be opposed, root and branch. Government intervention is never the solution; it is always part of the problem.

Laurence M. Vance

Tags: government, liberty, nanny state