Enemy Quote by Edward Abbey

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

— Edward Abbey

All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.

— Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

— George W. Bush

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

— Frank Herbert

Our own government has become our enemy.

— Chuck Baldwin

Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.

— Harry Browne

Government is the enemy until you need a friend.

— William Cohen

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions…

— Bruce Jackson

Governments are not always right.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

— Noam Chomsky

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.

— Natan Sharansky