Andrew Napolitano famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.
-- Andrew Napolitano

#Government #Doe #Anarchy
The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land (in the Western states).
-- Andrew Napolitano

#Government #Land #Doe
The other General Welfare Clause is in the first of the authorities given to the Congress and it's not a grant, it's a restriction. By which I mean it doesn't say Congress can legislate for the general welfare, it means that everything Congress must do has to enhance the general welfare of the United States of America. It can't grant things to individuals, it can only legislate for the government.
-- Andrew Napolitano

#Mean #America #Government
The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.
-- Andrew Napolitano

#People #Wealth #Economics
What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?
-- Andrew Napolitano

#Lying #Government #Jail
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.
-- Andrew Napolitano

#Two #Lunch #Voting
Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?
-- Andrew Napolitano

#Government #Upset #Care
It's hard for me to believe that World Trade Center building 7 came down by itself twenty years from now, people will look at 911 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn't possibly have been done the way the government told us.
-- Andrew Napolitano

#Believe #Government #Years
All presidents but Jefferson have argued that their first job was to keep us safe. All presidents but Jefferson were wrong. If you read the Constitution, you will see that the President's first job - as Jefferson understood well - is to keep us free.
-- Andrew Napolitano

#Jobs #President #Safe
The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.
-- Andrew Napolitano

#Government #Voting #Matter
The federal government views the Constitution as its enemy.
-- Andrew Napolitano

#Views #Government #Enemy
The unfortunate and inescapable historical truth is that those in government - from both parties and with a few courageous exceptions - do not feel constrained by the Constitution. They think they can do whatever they want.
-- Andrew Napolitano

#Party #Thinking #Government

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