Ron White Quotes

We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.

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

It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.

We give the military money, it ought to be to kick rears, break things, and come home.

Our military structure and tactics have been designed more to protect the service interest than the national interest.

Mexico no longer has an army.

Our United States military is not our threat.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

Our military and the strength of our military and the strengthening of our military is a number one priority for the Trump administration.

Clearly the American military has been a force for good for the United States. There's a reason we have a standing military. But there's something to be said for having a much smaller military because then we wouldn't be tempted to get involved in things we shouldn't be getting involved in.

I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country, or not. I think at some point, we may decide that we don't have to have that size military and cost footprint in the country. You look at what you want to accomplish, how many soldiers you need.

Our national aims can be realized only by military means. The matter needs no further elaboration or interpretation.

We have a military policy instead of an energy policy.

Our military is trained to kill our enemies in foreign lands, not to do civilian law enforcement within our country.

Considering standing armies as dangerous to free governments in time of peace, I shall not seek to enlarge our present establishment, nor disregard that salutary lesson of political experience which teaches that the military should be held subordinate to the civil power.

Japan is the only country in the world that does not call its defense organizations a military. That is absurd, when the government is spending 5 trillion yen a year for self-defense.

In a democracy such as ours military policy is dependent on public opinion.

I am persuaded that our liberties must be greatly hazarded, if not entirely lost, if their defense is left to any but a permanent standing army: I mean, one to exist during the war.

There is only one Republican presidential candidate that has a proven, courageous, and conservative record on national security: Marco Rubio.

It's the role of a government to defend its soldiers and its citizens.

If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.

As the name of the agency suggests, 'Department of Defense,' the defense refers to the United States of America - not the defense of South Korea, not the defense of Ukraine, not the defense of Syria or Germany.

The military is arguably the most significant social institution in our country.