Defense Readiness Quotes

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.

Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him

As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, my first priority is to ensure the readiness of our military.

We now have a lack of readiness that is quite scary. We have planes that were - that Harry Truman inaugurated, the B-52. We have - the Navy has been gutted and decimated. The readiness of the Marines is way down.

The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.

Patriotism means equipped forces and a prepared citizenry.

The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?'

Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who would harm it! And woe thrice over to the nation in which the average man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise!

One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages of probable regional or global wars on the basis of the balance of forces generating from the basic contradictions of our epoch.

Now, when North Korea rears its head, we send our ships, we send our planes, we get ready, we got our 28,000 soldiers on the border, that's a seriously dangerous border by the way, they've got their million and a half man army and we have 28,000 soldiers. But here we are, doing this, protecting, and I am saying to myself, we don't even get money; we don't get anything for doing this.