Enemies Foreign And Domestic Quotes

“America really is two countries today.  One half still loves freedom, and the other half’s already socialist, even if they don’t call it that—yet.  The free half is keeping them from going all the way to having the kind of socialist government they want, but they can’t quite shove us out of the way while we’ve got so many guns.  I think that’s really what all this is about: once they’ve got our guns, they’ll just pass all their damn socialist laws.  They’ll just increase our taxes until we’re like Sweden, and if we don’t like it, tough shit.  Anybody that fights back will get a free ride to a special camp for problem children.”
― Matthew Bracken, Enemies Foreign And Domestic

“But somebody sure as hell’s trying to start a war in this country.  Liberal against conservative, city against country, pro-gun against gun control, pro-government against pro-freedom, black against white against brown, Christian against Muslim…  There’s no other explanation that makes sense.”
― Matthew Bracken, Enemies Foreign And Domestic

“Hadn’t Jefferson written, “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God?”  Hadn’t he also written, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants?”
― Matthew Bracken, Enemies Foreign And Domestic

“Unknown to the sleeping family, three of their cell phones had been covertly switched on, providing the STU with interior audio listening devices paid for and put in position by the Edmonds themselves.  To the STU Team members, what civilians didn’t know about their own cell phones was simply mind boggling.”
― Matthew Bracken, Enemies Foreign And Domestic

“All of these new “Big Brother” laws had been sold under the guise of combating terrorism and increasing security, but none of them dared to address the specific threat posed by Islamic terror.  Instead, the federal government seemed to prefer to increase security by treating all Americans equally: equally as criminal suspects in a vast open-air penal system.”
― Matthew Bracken, Enemies Foreign And Domestic

“Anyone who had grown up around guns knew that the world was divided into two groups: unarmed potential victims, and armed survivors.”
― Matthew Bracken, Enemies Foreign And Domestic

“There is s no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American.  The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.  We are a nation, not a hodge-podge of foreign nationalities.  We are a people, and not a polyglot boarding house. Theodore Roosevelt”
― Matthew Bracken, Enemies Foreign And Domestic

“You know, those dead white guys, they were pretty smart, they sure had some vision.  They couldn’t possibly tell what was going to happen in two-hundred years, but they knew we’d need guns to deal with it, eventually.”
― Matthew Bracken, Enemies Foreign And Domestic

“Claire Wolfe: “America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”
― Matthew Bracken, Enemies Foreign And Domestic

“In the words of Ben Franklin, let me remind you that ‘they that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Matthew Bracken, Enemies Foreign And Domestic

“watched in mounting frustration, as the perversely named Patriot Acts (One and Two) had become law.  Then came the Total Information Awareness program, which was renamed the more palatable Terrorist Information Awareness program, which collected every knowable fact about every American, and placed it all into searchable databases.”
― Matthew Bracken, Enemies Foreign And Domestic