Quotes About Government

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is completely replaced by arbitrary government power?

My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

The more laws, the less justice.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.

When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic Party of war and Wall Street.

If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That's the natural thing.

America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.