Quotes About Security

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.

There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.

We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.

I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom.

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.