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Internal conflict Quotes

"What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart!"

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within"

"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within"

"The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three."

"How is it possible to have a civil war?"

"Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart."

"Everyone has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even to himself."

"I have a lot of beliefs and I live by none of them."

"I prefer to be true to myself even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others rather than to be false and to incur my own abhorrence"

"Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within."

"We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict"

"The entire narrative of this country argues against the truth of who you are."

"Only Americans can hurt America"