Josiah Warren Quotes

You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.

We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence.

If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

The United States government in Washington constantly gives amnesty to its highest officials, even when they commit the most egregious crimes. And yet the idea of amnesty for a whistleblower is considered radical and extreme.

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.

That could have been a very successful Presidency had President Nixon really believed in our system.

The history of governments is one of the most immoral parts of human history.

Respect for law is fading from the sensibilities of our people. Twenty times as many people in proportion to the population are lawlessly killed in the United States as in Great Britain. There are fifty times as many robberies. Life and property are relatively more unsafe than in any civilized country in the world.

I do not intend to take a position, which, if maintained, would abridge the freedom of discussion or restrain the liberty of the press. But I do contend that every principle of political justice, nay, every principle of humanity, demands that discussions shall not be persisted in, when it is manifest that their inevitable consequence is to render insecure … lives and property

In order for a corrupt system to prevail, numerous other rights are likely to be restricted in the areas of political participation and access to justice. The need for the corrupt to protect themselves and their cronies undermines the electoral process, leads to intimidation and manipulation of the press and compromises the independence of the judiciary …. Especially disturbing is the impunity that covers up so many of these acts.

… the public has come to accept torture as a legitimate instrument of government, something that the Founding Fathers would have been aghast at.

The U. S. Government tends to be vindictive in these cases when it comes to people who have exposed their wrongdoing. U. S. political Officials who … violate the Constitution of the United States—they get promotions; the people who expose them, like Mr Snowden, get indictments.

The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.

When there was a Congress government in Maharashtra, no one bothered about law and order.

The British government is a murder machine.