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 […]

Having the Pentagon attacked is a red flag, not a red herring. The flag does not get redder or realer than that. With all due respect to the poor souls who didn’t deserve to die in New York, a successful breaching of America’s defense core – speaking from reason and not sentiment – should be […]

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.

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.