“Big Government means small citizens: it corrodes the integrity of a people, catastrophically.” — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do? — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
How do you 'invest in the future'? By borrowing $188 million every hour. That's what the Government of the United States is… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“...but instead of the can-do spirit we now have the can-do-with-some-government-funding spirit. And it's hard to get an inspirational heart-warmer out of… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The 'Occupy' movement has no real solutions, except more government, more spending, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more unsustainable lethargic pseudo-university with no… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Apparently the pro-choice types who jump up and down in the street demanding that you keep your rosaries off their ovaries are… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“The populations of wealthy democratic societies expect to have total choice over their satellite TV packages, yet think it perfectly normal to allow the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China.… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century.” — Mark Steyn Copy Share
The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“But in practice the lack of belief in divine presence is just as likely to lead to humans avoiding responsibility: if there's nothing other… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“America is now a land that rewards failure--at the personal, corporate and state level. If you reward it, you get more of it. If… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“You cannot wage a sustained ideological assault on your own civilization without grave consequences. We are approaching the end of the Anglo-American moment, and… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which is why… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
