“We borrow from Europe to defend Europe. We borrow from the Gulf states to defend the Gulf states. We borrow from Japan to defend Japan. Is it not a symptom of senility to be borrowing from the world so we can defend the world?”

Source: The Road

University of Colorado Leeds School of Business Commencement Address (2013)

Quoted in Khrushchev Remembers (1970), p. 474

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Context: Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous

Source: 2000s, Wars of Blood and Faith: The Conflicts That Will Shape the Twenty-First Century (2007), p. 334

As quoted in "Mori's Remarks Again Draw Criticism" http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jun/05/news/mn-37760 (5 June 2000), Associated Press.

First inaugural address (January 20, 1993), Washington, D.C.
1990s

Lecture: The Lost Arts, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Garantissez-moi de mes amis, écrivait Gourville proscrit et fugitif, je saurai me défendre de mes ennemis. ("Defend me from my friends," wrote Gourville, exile and fugitive, "I can defend myself from my enemies.") — Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan, Considérations sur l'esprit et les moeurs (1788): "De L'Amitié." Sénac de Meilhan was quoting Jean Hérault, sieur de Gourville (1625 - 1703).
The remark has often been attributed to Voltaire and to Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars.
Misattributed