National Fear Quotes

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

President Obama is viewed by much of the world as feckless, weak, and incompetent, even antiAmerican - and that's by nations who are our allies and friends. As it pertains to China, Iran and North Korea (who just set off a nuclear weapon) they spit in America's face. They have no respect for America, and they sure as hell have no fear of America.

We have people across this country who are scared to death. Because I could tell you this, as a former federal prosecutor, if a center for the developmentally disabled in San Bernardino, California, is now a target for terrorists, that means everywhere in America is a target for these terrorists.

As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.

It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

There is but one nation on the globe from which we have anything serious to apprehend, but that is the most powerful that now exists or ever did exist. I refer to Great Britain.

Our national security is in a place where even my kids are concerned about things like ISIS when they hear about terrorist attacks on American soil.

The people of America, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners.

Tis surprising to see how rapidly a panic will sometimes run through a country. All nations and ages have been subject to them

There's a lot of anxiety about terrorism among the country at large. There's also a feeling the country has stagnated.