Question: who is not against us is for us

title: You're either with us, or against us
text: From the Book of Joshua ( Chap. 5 : 13 ) : `` It happened , when Joshua was by Jericho , that he lifted up his eyes and looked , and behold , a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand . Joshua went to him , and said to him , `` Are you for us , or for our adversaries ? '' `` . The Synoptic Gospels attribute the following quote to Jesus : `` Whoever is not with me is against me , and whoever does not gather with me scatters '' ( Matthew 12 : 30 ) , as well as its contrapositive , `` Whoever is not against us is for us '' ( Luke 9 : 50 ; Mark 9 : 40 ) . Marcus Tullius Cicero , in an oration before Julius Caesar in 46 BCE , published as Pro Ligario , made the following distinction : `` For we heard you say that we looked upon all as enemies that were not with us ; but that you looked upon all as friends that were not against you . '' Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , in a speech discussing the Chief Committee for Political Education , told the assembled delegates that `` It is with absolute frankness that we speak of this struggle of the proletariat ; each man must choose between joining our side or the other side . Any attempt to avoid taking sides in this issue must end in fiasco . '' George Orwell wrote in his 1942 essay `` Pacifism and the War '' , `` If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other . Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one . In practice , ' he that is not with me is against me ' . The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle , while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you , is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security . '' Benito Mussolini declared in speeches across fascist Italy : `` O con noi o contro di noi '' -- You 're either with us or against us . János Kádár , in an effort to unite Hungary after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 , announced in December 1961 , `` those who are not against us are with us . '' Common form of Cold War terminology . On 30 September 1970 , the Milwaukee Journal quoted a police official of the Greek military junta of 1967 -- 74 as saying to his political prisoners : `` You make yourself ridiculous ( sic ) by thinking you can do anything . The word is divided in two . The Russians and the Americans , no one else . What are we ? Americans . Behind me there is the government , behind the government is NATO , behind NATO is the US . You ca n't fight us , we are Americans . '' Hillary Clinton said on September 13 , 2001 : `` Every nation has to either be with us , or against us . Those who harbor terrorists , or who finance them , are going to pay a price . '' President George W. Bush , in an address to a joint session of Congress on September 20 , 2001 said , `` Every nation , in every region , now has a decision to make . Either you are with us , or you are with the terrorists . '' Vic Toews Canadian Public Safety Minister said on February 13 , 2012 : `` ... either stand with us or with the child pornographers '' in response to questions from Quebec MP Francis Scarpaleggia ( Lac - Saint - Louis ) regarding extensive Privacy Commission concerns about ' warrant-less access ' to all Canadian Internet and Cell phone accounts under the proposed legislation contained in bill C - 30 `` Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act '' introduced the following day ( February 14 , 2012 ) in the House of Commons of Canada . Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , in a speech after a suicide bomb explosion in Istanbul on January 12 , 2016 , said : `` Pick a side . You are either on the side of the Turkish government , or you 're on the side of the terrorists . '' Sarah Palin , in a speech criticizing Republicans who did n't support Donald Trump 's 2016 election campaign , said : `` You 're either with us or you 're against us . `` That gang , they call themselves Never hashtag , whatever , I just call ' em Republicans Against Trump , or RAT for short , And you know it was really funny , to me , the ' splodey heads keep ' sploding over this movement because it seems so obvious ... ''