In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Dwight D. EisenhowerTags: power government imperialism
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
Dwight D. EisenhowerTags: politics war weapons government guns military military-budget poverty
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.
Theodore RooseveltTags: politics government government-corruption senate
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Gerald R. FordTags: political-philosophy government
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel AdamsTags: environment government
Everything not forbidden is compulsory
T.H. WhiteTags: humor absurd government totalitarianism
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Ronald ReaganTags: inspirational politics political-philosophy freedom-of-choice government
People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Alan MooreTags: equality misattributed democracy government
Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.
John Ralston SaulTags: ethics morals government
Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people who went on to become part of the Fascist experience:
(1) shift power directly to economic and social interest groups;
(2) push entrepreneurial initiative in areas normally reserved for public bodies;
(3) obliterate the boundaries between public and private interest -- that is, challenge the idea of the public interest.
This sounds like the official program of most contemporary Western governments.
Tags: government corporatism
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