Quotes About Government

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are.

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?

Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by the U.S. government and faithfully amplified by the corporate media.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

Internal security means something. It means war against your own population.