The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.
Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.
All public officials, including the secretary of state, must be held accountable.
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Every man is his own chief enemy.