Quotes About Defense

I never think that walls can protect you.

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

That was it - I lost my job... I was very discouraged. I wanted to be in defense work... I'm an American, and I have nothin' to do with Japan, and so it's sort of an insult to me.

There is nothing that makes me more falsely arrogant, like, wanting to defend myself, than a TSA agent.

I was a great help-side defender in college, but as far as really wanting to lock somebody up, that was never really my focus.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

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.

If there is no Ukrainian strong army, there will be no Ukraine, and that will be the case when everyone will understand... it's not the war in Ukraine, it's the war in Europe. We are defending our country, our land. We are not attacking anyone, because that is immoral.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong.

Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

As we get older, we tend to grow quite fond of the planets of belief we have constructed for ourselves. We build elaborate defense mechanisms to ward off attacks from competing ideas or new data. The system makes us comfortable but resistant to change, no matter how much change might be called for.

I do agree that when it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

Cyberspace is the new domain of warfare.

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.