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If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.

— Monica Crowley

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

As governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies.

— William Wallace

One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.

— Viggo Mortensen

No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.

— Rupert Murdoch

I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.

— Deval Patrick

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

— Dalton Trumbo

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

— Thomas Paine

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

— Friedrich Engels

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

— John Bolton

✗Opposing Perspectives

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

— David Mamet

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

— Ron Paul