Quotes About Government

The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.

I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

The current oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of governmental mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war.

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self.

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods that the war is happening.

Kill someone on the behalf of yourself, you get deemed a murderer. Kill someone on behalf of your Government, you get deemed a hero.

How could you have a war on terrorism when war is terrorism?

The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety.

War made the state, and the state made war

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.

Of course, freedom is not free. Taxpayers pay for it.

The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government.

Never confuse fighting for one's government with fighting for one's country.

In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign.