Quotes About Government

To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards that we're all taught are what distinguishes the US and keeps it free.

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.

They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

Do wars support the military-industrial complex and therefore support the people?

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest.

I got tired of my taxes paying for exciting little wars around the world. Then I discovered that when I died, my wife would probably have to sell our house to pay for the taxes in America.

But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.

In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.