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“I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments.”

Country Whole Government America Differences Enemy Involved Responsible Allies Oppressive Governments

Author:Lawrence Wright

“America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.”

Way Giving War America Purpose Fighting Winning Enemy Greek Application Vietnam Fighting To Win Old Greek

Author:Arthur Goldberg

“History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.”

Men World War America Force Enemy Military Weakness Europe Army War Of The Worlds Fewer World War I Aggression Uniforms Nazi Pearls Invited Harbors Pearl Harbor Attack

Author:Frank Gaffney

“I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”

“Our enemies are fully aware that they can use oil as a weapon against America. And if we don't take this threat as seriously as the bombs they build or the guns they buy, we will be fighting the War on Terror with one hand tied behind our back.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place.”

Ifs Firsts Wells War Home America Loses Enemy Trouble Return Logic Sight Sake Folks Justification Momentum Back Home

Book:Power Politics

Source: Power Politics

“American's greatest deficit is no longer found in the federal budget. It is a moral deficit, and it may be found in a polluted and poisoned culture that has become the great enemy within.”

May America Culture Found Moral Enemy Budgets Deficit Enemy Within

Author:Pat Buchanan

“Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors ... had been unanimous in telling me that the principles and laws of the Church of Rome were absolutely antagonistic to the principles which are the foundation stones of the Constitution of the United States of America.”

Source: Fifty Years in the Church of Rome: The Life Story of Pastor Chiniquy, who was for Twenty-five Years a Priest in the Roman Catholic Church

“I seem to vaguely remember a time when America had confidence. And guts. And soldiers fighting a war didn't need to be given "permission" to defend themselves from enemies trying to kill them.”

Needs Trying War Seems America Remember Fighting Given Enemy Soldier Guts Permission

Author:Charles Foster Johnson

“The one enemy in the world that America has is England. But then, England is the great land of Christian civilization, and it may not be a thing to be much wondered at that our Americans whom we send to represent us in London become in a short time somewhat civilized, and learn to love those who hate them, bless those that curse them, and do good to those that persecute and calumniate them.”

World May Christian America Hate Enemy Land Civilization England London Curse Civilized Bless Short Time

Book:Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898: Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood. Customs, Habits and Manners of the Irish People. Erinach and Sassenach-Catholic and Protestant-Englishman and Irishman-English Religion-Irish Plunder. Social Life and Prison Life. The Fenian Movement. Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America

Source: Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898: Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood. Customs, Habits and Manners of the Irish People. Erinach and Sassenach-Catholic and Protestant-Englishman and Irishman-English Religion-Irish Plunder. Social Life and Prison Life. The Fenian Movement. Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America

“As president I would actually name the enemy, radical Islamic terrorists. We've got a president [ Barack Obama] who wants to apologize for America and wants to criticize medieval Christian and wants to wage war on junk food. He won't even say the words "radical Islamic terrorists."”

Want War Christian America Names President Enemy Terrorist Radical Barack Islamic Criticize Apologizing Medieval Junk President Barack Obama Junk Food

Author:Bobby Jindal

“When it comes time to protecting the homeland, the United States of America must be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy, which desires to strike us again, only has to be right once.”

States America Desire United Enemy United States Percent Strikes United States Of America Homeland

Author:George W. Bush

“The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.”

America Enemy Segregation Organizer Invaders

Book:Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

Source: Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

“Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.”

Wells Two Might America Enemy Wonderful Property Beast Scent Cunning Adversaries Ingenious Prairie Wild Beasts

Book:From The Earth To The Moon / De la terre à la lune (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

Source: From The Earth To The Moon / De la terre à la lune (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

“America has receded from the world. Today our friends and allies don't trust us. And our enemies don't fear us. I think we should get back, number one, to American leadership in the world.”

Thinking World Should Today America Numbers Enemy Get Back Allies World Today Don't Trust American Leadership

Author:Ted Cruz

“I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.”

Thinking America Enemy Dangerous

Author:Nathan Hale