John McCain Quotes

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

You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things for you carries with it the equivalent power to do things to you.

Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.

Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.

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 government is formed and the seat of power is safe.

The state is force incarnate, its essence is command and compulsion.

There is no force greater than the state force.

‘National Security’ is, in effect, a translation of the European concept of ‘raison d’etat’, providing cover for a government that felt free to break through all traditional limits on its power.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

No power in the country can dissolve the government.

Government is a necessary evil

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.

The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.

Democratic governments are not delivering on their promises, which is partly due to the fact that governments are less powerful than they were after the Second World War. There were fewer governments then, but they actually had more political power.

The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

I don't know how to run your life. I don't know how to run your life. I don't have the authority to run your life. And the Constitution doesn't permit me to run your life.

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.