Quotes About Government

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

War is the health of the state.

Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated.

The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.

Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.