A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb
Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.
The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens, whether the threat is a domestic one or from abroad.
So long as danger threatened from without public opinion tolerated the guillotine.
When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.
I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like to write about the old standard where some rotten guy gets chased by a mean spirit that gets him in the end.I'd rather write about nice people that are menaced from outside by some sort of evil power and who sort of slug it out.
Whenever the nation is under attack from within or without, liberals side with the enemy.
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.
The real danger of the Cotton dynasty lies not in the hostility of the North, but in the exigencies of the market abroad;.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.
There will be no fraternal strife while the foe is at the gate.
I am not sure whether I should be afraid of a national security threat from another country or another solar system.
Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger.
Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.
There's always going to be pressure on your place. It's 11 cricketers. There's always going to be other cricketers outside the team doing well.
We need as all nations do, the compression on the outside of our circle a formidable neighbor, whose presence shall at all times excite stronger fears than demagogues can inspire the people with towards their government.
National unity does not only have to occur when swords are swung at us.
I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.
And we're being attacked because of what we do, not because of who we are. And by refusing to talk about that, I'm afraid the American people, at least, don't have a good idea of just how dangerous the threat is that we face.
It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger.
We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.
Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.
As you sit there and as I sit here, they are going in. They're taking over, and they just walk in and they can do whatever they want. They have essentially already taken it over.
