Boxes Quote by Howard Zinn

Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces…

— Douglas MacArthur

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

— Ron Paul

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

— Ronald Reagan

Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own…

— Bob Schieffer

Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and…

— Mark Kennedy

We are not safe and secure when the government uses us as pawns to perpetrate violence against others. Our safety and security will come…

— Chelsea Manning

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is…

— Harry S. Truman

Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before…

— Bill Frist

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

— Wendell Berry

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global…

— Barack Obama

Every threat needs to be taken as: 'This is the one; this is the real threat.' That's how we focus on things in counterterrorism.…

— Abigail Spanberger

“Monopolizing the right to speak authoritatively about “security” in name of everyone—the ability to evoke the “national interest” or a universal “we”—is at the…

— Gearoid Otuathail