Quotes About Government

the war was financed with a $200 million loan from the Rockefellers' National City Bank. How was the loan to be repaid? Since no income tax then existed, a telephone tax was levied on the American people. That tax remained in place for 108 years.

the Roosevelt administration ordered that the trial verdicts be made confidential. The public remained in the dark.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

Taxes are a penalty on progress.

The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Bremer issued orders that effectively purged the Iraqi government of Baath Party members and then disbanded the Iraqi Army, virtually guaranteeing an anti-American insurgency.

There were more than 1,200 government organizations and nearly 2,000 private companies working on counterterrorism, homeland security, and intelligence programs, the Washington Post found in 2010, and more than 850,000 people in America had top-secret clearances, producing 50,000 intelligence reports a year. The U.S. intelligence budget alone has at least doubled since 2001, and by 2013, stood at more than $70 billion a year,

America has become accustomed to a permanent state of war. Only a small slice of society—including many poor and rural teenagers—fight and die, while a permanent national security elite rotates among senior government posts, contracting companies, think tanks, and television commentary, opportunities that would disappear if America was suddenly at peace. To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

Years later, reporters would link together the deaths of many members of the cast and crew of The Conqueror (1955), including Susan, John Wayne, Agnes Moorehead, Pedro Armendariz, and director Dick Powell. All of them eventually developed cancer; the cause seems to have been the radiation that hovered over the Utah filming site in 1955 after government A-bomb tests.

Since 9/11, there's been a huge spike in biodefense spending, resulting in a slew of new Level 4 labs popping up across the country.

such were the ways of government. rather than attacking the problem aggressively, everyone was still pointing fingers and running for cover.

We need religion, government, and laws to force a level of control over our baser natures. I intend to strip away the disease that is intelligence, to rip away the deception that allows humanity to believe itself mightier and more deserving of this planet.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

Democracy has a habit of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the powers-that-be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers-that-ought-to-be

HCCIC by the C suite at HHS is a profound statement of having the moral courage to do what's right for the health sector