Anxiety Quote by Gordon Cooper

“Governments often keep their populace in permanent states of vigilance or anxiety against foreign enemies as a control mechanism—the politics of fear.”

— Graham E. Fuller

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

— Patricia Schroeder

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

— John Adams

And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

— Andrew Lang

...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

— Andrew Lang

Government should fear the people, not the other way around.

— Killer Mike

When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally…

— Bruce Schneier

Here in America, we don't give in to our fears. We don't build up walls to keep people out.

— Michelle Obama

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

— Ron Paul

When the entire world is built on death and horror, when existence is a constant state of panic, it's hard to get worked up…

— Isaac Marion

We have nothing to fear but fear itself. That, and those great big furry spiders.

— Lev L. Spiro

“Flash forward to the 1980s and 1990s and it is not foreign fascists we have to put out of our minds in order to…

— Barry Glassner