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Quotes About Government

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
~ Edward Abbey
I love my country, not my government.
~ Jesse Ventura
To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.
~ G. Edward Griffin
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
~ Mark Twain
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
~ Douglas MacArthur
Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
~ Steve Allen
I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.
~ Mark Hatfield
If I want to transform patriotism then I do not proceed in the slightest against the fine fact of the nation but against the mixing up of the nation and the state.
~ Gustav Landauer
No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.
~ Cornelius Nepos
No one is patriotic about taxes.
~ George Orwell
Patriotism means loving our country, not the government.
~ Mike Cloud
Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush.
~ Jello Biafra
[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.
~ Howard Zinn
The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
~ H. G. Wells
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
~ Seneca the Younger
If you're patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, you will pay hell to get them back. You will and we're in the process of it right now.
~ Jesse Ventura
As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.
~ Edward Snowden
Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.
~ Bob Dylan
Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
~ Mark Twain
Statism is a mental disorder, much akin to Stockholm Syndrome.
~ Dane Whalen
They loved their country largely because they controlled it.
~ Tom Clancy, Executive Orders
If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.
~ Emiliano Zapata
I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.
~ Shimon Peres
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
~ Francis Bacon