Francois Rabelais Quotes

That no attack should reach the walls of Babylon, I did what no earlier king had done … I caused mighty wall to be built on the East side of Babylon. I dug out a moat … I made the city of Babylon a fortress.

Keeping our military strong means keepin' our families strong.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

Fighting men are the city's fortress.

The military capabilities of the United States need to be kept comfortably superior to those of present and potential enemies. But they should be measured relatively, against those enemies’ capabilities, and not against the limit of what is technologically possible or based on some vague urge to have more.

The world relies upon, and America must rely upon, a strong military.

I promise you, I promise you that Donald Trump knows, Donald Trump knows that the primary role of the president is to keep us safe.

I've always had full confidence in the professionalism and the assessment of the armed forces.

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

I think one of the reasons I'm standing here instead of other people is that, frankly, I talked about it, we have to have a strong military.

As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.

A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.

Everynbody tries not to reveal his weaknesses, so that he may not be ridiculed. Specially before the enemy. One's weakpoits shold not be revealed. Becaues ohe canstrike on those to ruin us. So one shold remain strong before the enemy.

I am the most militaristic person but you have to know when to use the military. Or have it so strong that nobody is going to mess with you, which is my ultimate goal.

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.

Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on.

I believe as well that - that American strength is - is essential economic strength, family and value strength, military strength is essential for our own good that these things not only help secure peace for other people but preserve peace for us and - and promise greater prosperity for America.

Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

Who could not conquer with such troops as these?

We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should take our example not from the military and political leaders shouting 'retaliate' and 'war' but from the doctors and nurses and firemen and policemen who have been saving lives in the midst of mayhem, whose first thoughts are not violence, but healing, and not vengeance, but compassion.

Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used.

I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be. I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.

As we watch the world today, sometimes it seems that we're at the mercy of events instead of shaping events. And a strong America's essential to shape events, and a strong America, by the way, depends on a strong military.