Chalmers Johnson quotes

When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it. (Chalmers Johnson)

As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The American attempt to combine domestic democracy with such tyrannical control over foreigners is hopelessly contradictory and hypocritical. A country can be democratic or it can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both.

Chalmers Johnson

A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.

Chalmers Johnson

Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.

Chalmers Johnson

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

Chalmers Johnson

History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of the American republic may be coming to its end... the US will probably maintain a facade of constitutional government and drift along until financial bankruptcy overtakes it.

Chalmers Johnson

The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.

Chalmers Johnson

Chalmers Johnson

Occupation: Author
Born: August 6, 1931
Died: November 20, 2010
Quotes count: 7

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