quotes by Jonah Goldberg

"If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.""
— Jonah Goldberg (Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning)

"America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered."
— Jonah Goldberg (Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning)

"If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty."
— Jonah Goldberg

"[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say."
— Jonah Goldberg

"People ask, “Why is there poverty in the world?” It’s a silly question. Poverty is the default human condition. It is the factory preset of this mortal coil."
— Jonah Goldberg

"Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state."
— Jonah Goldberg

"Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, “If we can put a man on the moon . . . ,” grab your wallet."
— Jonah Goldberg