“I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.” EnemyCitizensSentimentsHonorableAdopted Book:Selected poetry and prose Source: Selected poetry and prose
“[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.” WorldKindCountryPoliticalPresidentEnemyPovertyNovelFiveConditionsDangerousCitizensThirdsFellowsJohnsonBattlefieldsThird WorldDickensPolitical WillThird World CountriesPresident Johnson Author:Anna Quindlen
“Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?” GivingYearsEnemyCitizensThousandGiving UpFrightenedThousand YearsNsaAmerican Citizens Author:Rand Paul
“I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military's job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.” ThinkingShouldTryingJobsTurnsNationsEnemyMilitaryBuildingCitizensMurderDown AndDemocraticIraqEngagedHuntsIsisUtopiaAmerican CitizensJihadSwitzerlandNation Building Author:Ted Cruz
“I believe from what I have lately seen that we should be substantially safe were our Citizens Armed, but we have not as many Arms as we have Enemies in the State.” ShouldBelieveStatesI BelieveEnemyArmsCitizensSafe Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia I, Correspondence, 1780 - 1782 Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia I, Correspondence, 1780 - 1782
“Putin likes to quote a sentence from Czar Alexander III, who said that Russian has only two allies - the army and the navy. As a citizen, this makes me sit up and take notice. This is a concept of self-imposed isolation, a defense strategy that sees Russia surrounded by enemies.” SaidTwoSelfEnemyCitizensConceptsArmyStrategySentencesDefenseRussiaLikesIsolationAlliesNavyPutinCzars Author:Vladimir Sorokin
“War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.” MenDifferentWarStatesIndividualEnemyImpossibleCitizensMembersRelationSoldierAccidentsOne ManDefendersFatherlandTrue Relation Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies...” MenHomeJobsHateBeliefEnemyTeachPolicyColorBrotherCitizensFellowsPursueOur FamilyBigotryThreateningYour Freedom Author:Robert Kennedy
“We must have a government which is not only a guarantor of public order and safety and which preserves the right of White citizens to keep and to bear arms, which is the ancient hallmark of a truly free people, but we must have government which maintains an eternal vigilance against the enemies, both internal and external, of a White America.” PeopleGovernmentAmericaOrderWhiteEnemyArmsBearsCitizensEternalSafetyAncientPreservesInternalsHallmarkVigilanceEternal Vigilance Author:George Lincoln Rockwell
“[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.” PersonsDoeStatesEnemyEconomicCrimeDangerExampleCitizensTaxesPropertySoldierIncomePursueContentmentCategoriesConspiracyRulersInvasionRegisterIncome TaxTreasonAssassinationSubversiveEvasionSubversionLexiconDesertion Author:Murray Rothbard
“Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.” GovernmentEnemyDangerousCitizens Author:E. L. Doctorow
“If you're an American citizen and you decide to join up with ISIS, we're not going to read you your Miranda rights. You're going to be treated as an enemy combatant, a member of an army attacking this country.” IfsCountryEnemyRightsCitizensMembersArmyTreatedAttackingIsisAmerican Citizens Author:Marco Rubio
“Unlike previous wars, our enemy now is a stateless network of religious extremists. They do not obey the laws of war, they hide among peaceful populations and launch surprise attacks on civilians. They have no armed forces per se, no territory or citizens to defend and no fear of dying during their attacks. Information is our primary weapon against this enemy, and intelligence gathered from captured operatives is perhaps the most effective means of preventing future attacks.” MeanWarLawForceReligiousEnemyDyingInformationCitizensWeaponsSurprisePopulationPeacefulPrimariesTerritoryNo FearCiviliansCapturedExtremistPreventingArmed ForcesFear Of DyingSurprise Attacks Author:John Yoo
“I assure my fellow citizens that the vast majority of Muslims experience the same fear they do. ISIS and Al Qaeda are my enemies, too. Most of the people killed by these groups have been Muslim.” PeopleHas BeensEnemyGroupsCitizensFellowsMajorityAlsIsisAl Qaeda Author:Debbie Almontaser
“The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.” PeopleThinkingMenWellsStatesAnimalEnemyWorstHe ManCitizensIdealsSilentObedienceTyrantsBowsHerdsWorst Enemy Author:Claire Wolfe
“The state should avoid all solicitude for the positive welfare of its citizens, and not proceed a step further than is necessary for their mutual security and their protection against foreign enemies. It should impose restrictions on freedom for no other purpose.” ShouldStatesPurposeLibertyStepsEnemySecurityCitizensProtectionWelfareMutualRestrictionSolicitude Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt
“Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents and written a lot about them. In fact, anybody who's worked through the declassified record can see very clearly that the reason for classification is very rarely to protect the state or the society from enemies. Most of the time it is to protect the state from its citizens, so they don't know what the government is doing.” KnowsLongStatesReasonFactsGovernmentEnemyTechnologyStudyRecordsWrittenRevolutionCitizensProtectInternalsDocumentsClassification Author:Noam Chomsky
“Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.” HomeEnemyCitizensTerroristInnocentInnocence Author:Alec Baldwin
“Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.” BelieveEnemyRightsCitizensProvidingConstitutional Rights Author:Mitt Romney