Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
People do not make wars; governments do.
Everything government touches turns to crap.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
I love my country, not my government.
The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.
All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.
House Speaker Pelosi worried about the opposition, the tone of it, perhaps leading to violence as it did in the 70s. Theres more recent examples of anti-government violence - occurring even in the mid-90s. Do you worry about that?
On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.
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