internal danger Quotes

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb

I wish for an America no less alert in guarding against dangers from within than it is watchful against enemies from without.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

I have dangerous bones in my body.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

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.

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.

But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.

No foreign enemies could threaten so much danger to this kingdom as doth now this beggarly nation. [Scotland]

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

All our key institutions were created in response to either World War II or the cold war, and they were built around predictions of eminent danger from the exterior. Whereas the biggest danger we face now is internal—from the collapse of social standards and social order in our cities.

Your biggest threat is the person who knows the most about you.