Quotes about Defense

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

To arm is to give one's voice and make one's preparations, not for peace but for war.

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

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.

A truly successful army is one that, because of its strength and ability and dedication, will not be called upon to fight, for no one will dare to provoke it.

I think you believe in these words, I think - three very important words, peace through strength, right. Peace through strength.

The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen.

No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

"They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance."

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

I will not be ashamed to defend a friend.