If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
Defense Quotes
We are confident that we can penetrate any enemy defenses with our missiles. We know that we are more than the equal of any nation in the world.
To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
The Soviets have really been quite single-minded. They increased their defense expenditures as we increased ours. And they increased their defense expenditures as we have decreased ours.
That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
Offensive operations, often times, is the “surest”, if not the “only” (in some cases) means of defence.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.
I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parlay.
