Quotes About Defense

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Those who abjure violence can only do so by others committing violence on their behalf.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.

Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called 'abolition of private property' which took place in the middle years of the century meant, in effect, the concentration of property in far fewer hands than before: but with this difference, that the new owners were a group instead of a mass of individuals.

We sleep soundly in our beds, because rough men stand ready in the night to do violence on those who would harm us Orwell cited Kipling's phrase making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep (Kipling, Tommy), and further noted that Kipling's grasp of function, of who protects whom, is very sound. He sees clearly that men can be highly civilized only while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them. (1942)

let us not pretend that we go into this war with clean hands. It is only while we cling to the consciousness that our hands are not clean that we retain the right to defend ourselves.

The world sleeps peaceably in their beds while rough men practice violence on their behalf.

We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf --Opening to My Father's Son, attributed to George Orwell

Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly.

The obvious, the silly and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that!

Heureusement l'ennemi était on ne peut moins entreprenant. Il y eut des nuits où notre position eût pu être prise d'assaut par vingt boy-scouts armés de carabines à air comprimé, ou tout aussi bien par vingt girl-guides armées de raquettes.

He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom, and let fly a charge of number 6 shot into the darkness. The pellets buried themselves in the wall of the barn

WE CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT ADEQUATE PROTECTION

as a protection against my own weaknesses

Babylon endured century after century because it was fully protected. It could not afford to be otherwise.

The walls of Babylon were an outstanding example of man's need and desire for protection.

We are fighting these terrorists with our military in Afghanistan and Iraq and beyond so we do not have to face them in the streets of our own cities.

The strategy focuses on taking the fight against terrorists directly to them, isolating the terrorists from each other and potential allies, and disrupting plots before attacks occur.

We're taking the fight to the terrorists abroad, so we don't have to face them here at home.

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.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.