"Each government accuses the other of perfidy,..." - Quote by Thomas Paine
Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to hostilities. Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government.
More by Thomas Paine
“If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever, it was the first generation that existed; and if that generation did it not, no succeeding generation can show any authority for doing it, nor can set any up.”
“To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.”
“Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.”
More on Government
“There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.”
“It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the use of it within the limits of its faculties, "never to borrow a dollar without laying a tax in the same instant for paying the interest annually, and the principal within a given term; and to consider that tax as pledged to the creditors on the public faith."”
“We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.”
More on Conflict
“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it”
“Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.”
“If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.”