Defense Quotes

The first duty of any Government is to safeguard its people against external aggression. To guarantee the survival of our way of life.

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Nations live or die by the way they respond to the particular challenges they face. Those challenges may be internal or external; they may be faced by a nation alone or in concert with other nations; they may come gradually or suddenly. There is no immutable law of nature that says only the unjust will […]

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.

The best defense is a good offence.

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

Why wouldn’t an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to defensive capability. I believe that is the route this country will eventually go.