American president Quote by Robert Higgs Download Open image “When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.” — Robert Higgs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare American president American Presidents Lying President War
We're in more wars today under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than under George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan. Yet they tell you that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth. — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president. — Linda Tripp Copy Share Image
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
“People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.” — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President. — Pierre Salinger Copy Share Image
In recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President George W. Bush… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
In fact, American presidents never apologize for what America does in war, because in the American mind, all its wars are defensive, always fought… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
Recipients of transfers set a bad example for others, including their children, other relatives, and friends, who see that one can receive goods, services,… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
We need to have a modicum of faith in people's common sense, creativity and will to survive and prosper even in the face of… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be just as the… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is to put… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways. — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
This is the true lesson of our history: war, preparation for war, and foreign military interventions have served for the most part not to… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Liberty in the United States will never be reestablished so long as elites and masses alike look to the president to perform supernatural feats… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I happen to think that Hillary Clinton is a beacon of hope for younger girls, as was Barack Obama in other inspirational areas. We've… — Alex Meneses Copy Share Image
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent. — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
Let's get real: would any American president seriously open up their borders unconditionally to Mexico as the U.K. has done to the whole of… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
It was interesting watching the Afghanistan war review deliberations, this three-month process where Barack Obama did the most thorough foreign policy review ever by… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“When was the last time an American president found it worth his while to write a speech on the importance of art and literature?… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
To give credit to Lincoln for moral progression seems beyond the facts and unnecessary for our appreciation of this arguably greatest of all American… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
In fact, American presidents never apologize for what America does in war, because in the American mind, all its wars are defensive, always fought… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my… — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image