From Sinai with love
First you love, then you express your love, and finally, and sometimes much later, you find out the reasons for your love. I have experienced this with my love for Sinai.
Life without liberty and the pursuit of subverting civil rights
Hermann Goring, Hitler's designated successor, wrote that the most efficient way to remove citizens' democratic and human rights was to convince them that they were being threatened by a foreign or external threat. The people will then sit passively by while all sorts of draconian laws are passed, subverting civil rights, because they feel these laws are necessary to protect them from perceived threats - whether real or imagined.
Civil Resistance