Defense Quotes

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.

Isn’t the best defense always a good attack?

In the U.S. we have a method of formulating defense policy which is influenced by pork barrel legislation, technological results of federally subsidized research and development, a desire to keep large corporations afloat, and intersevice competition. We as citizens are not often involved in the formulation of policy beyond letting our representative know that jobs […]

Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be call and a spur to the faithful servants of Truth and Justice: “Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of […]