Lies the Government Told You Quotes

“What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?”
― Andrew P. Napolitano, Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History

“If exercising the right to vote were truly effective, the government would not be so eager to promote it.”
― Andrew P. Napolitano, Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History

“I'm worried that the government might kill Edward Snowden with a drone. --Ron Paul”
― Ron Paul, Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History

“No matter what they say, Democrats and Republicans in the United States do not control the government because they are best able to serve us and meet our needs. In fact, both parties couldn't care less about us.”
― Andrew P. Napolitano, Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History

“Both parties promote "changing Washington," but in reality they like Washington just the way it is: little gets done that they don't like, and none of our officials are truly held accountable.”
― Andrew P. Napolitano, Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History

“The monarchy continued this tradition, and it migrated to America as soon as there was profit to be had.”
― Andrew P. Napolitano, Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History

“Legislators redistrict all the time to achieve desired results. They group people together based on how they think they will vote. There is something fundamentally wrong with this tactic; it is unconstitutional, it is manipulative, it is patronizing, and it infringes upon all citizens' right to vote.”
― Andrew P. Napolitano, Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History

“On Election Day, we select our representatives by secret ballot, and we choose our candidates based on their ability to protect our individual rights, not the rights of the group of people with which we most closely identify.”
― Andrew P. Napolitano, Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History

“We must recognize that we do not have a two-party system in this country; we have one party, the big government party. There is a republican version that assaults our civil liberties and loves deficits and war, and a democratic version that assaults our commercial liberty and loves wealth transfers and taxes.”
― Andrew P. Napolitano, Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History

“Slavery was a tradition embedded in the culture of the South and played a key economic role there. Its economic importance was the key factor impending abolition. Nevertheless, slavery is morally reprehensible, and completely indefensible, and the fact that many Americans, including the Founding Fathers, recognized that it was wrong, in a way makes us even more responsible for the crimes committed against the African-American race.”
― Andrew P. Napolitano, Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History