Quotes About Defense

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

All wars will be settled by sea power.

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.

If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.

The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.

I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.

If we were building our navy, rather than reducing our navy to pre-World War I levels, China would not be thinking about increasing its navy to take over the South China Sea.

A defensive referendum is for avoiding war and to help keep the Taiwanese people free of fear.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren.

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.

The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.

The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.

The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.