Common Quote by Dave Barry

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

— Peter Kuznick

Our own government has become our enemy.

— Chuck Baldwin

I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are…

— Benjamin Carson

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

— Barack Obama

Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists - and every government that supports them.

— George W. Bush

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

— N. F. Simpson

I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“our federal government has repeatedly demonstrated that it will not hesitate to use its tactical ‘police’ forces to murder its opponents. Although the government…

— Joseph Befumo

America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If we want…

— Ron Paul

Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them…

— Thomas Paine

Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane, driven by nationalism, religion, ethnicity or ideology. They do not fear the United States for its…

— Ronald Reagan

The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach - is that…

— Jacob G. Hornberger