Quotes About Defense

The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!

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

Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.

The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.

Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.

Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!'

One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.

Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits

My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.

I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.

The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive.

I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night

It is with artillery that war is made.