Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction.

By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger, ... They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.

This is inexcusable. Weapons of mass destruction pose a grave danger to us all, particularly in a world threatened by terrorists with global ambitions and no inhibitions.

It is called destruction before reconstruction. People will have to see the danger of war, the hopelessness of war, before things can improve.

I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger.

The road of isolationism and protectionism ... ends in danger and decline. I am for free commerce with all nations, political connection with none.