“The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.”

“...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.”

“Public access to government information is a fundamental prerequisite to a functioning democracy. A democratic system is based on the notion that government legitimacy requires the consent of the governed. To be meaningful that consent must be informed.”

“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.Read more at”

“A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.”

“The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.”