Government Quote by Patrick Leahy

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

— Jim Mattis

The more complex our security becomes, the more complex our enemy's efforts must be.The more we seek to shut him out, the better he…

— C.S. Friedman

The greatest threat to our country and national security is DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who is refusing to implement existing laws to keep Americans…

— John E. James

Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

— Wendell Berry

“The most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

We cannot sacrifice our humanity in the name of security - or we risk losing both.

— Beto O'Rourke

Great-power politics is tragic because the structure of the international system forces states that seek only to be secure nonetheless to act aggressively toward…

— John Mearsheimer

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of…

— Ludwig Quidde

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it…

— Anonymous

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

...[W]e insist on the principle that no danger or crisis, foreign or domestic, will be solved by Americans surrendering more of their constitutional liberties,…

— Larry P. Arnn