Military Production Quotes

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

War has had a beneficial consequence for our industry.

My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb.

Israeli ingenuity was never more evident than in the Ayalon bullet factory built during the British occupation of Palestine. It was constructed underneath an urban kibbutz. The workers had a bakery and laundry which provided constant clatter to disguise the work carried on below ground.

It seems to me intolerable to allow private people to use public capital in order to make a guaranteed profit for themselves .... If private citizens won’t supply munitions of war at a reasonable profit and take pot luck with the rest of the citizens in the matter of taxation, then the government ought to build its own plants and conscript the necessary managers to run them.

At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war.

The armored vehicle manufacturing base is not a light switch that can be turned on and off at will. If we mothball production of systems like the Abrams tank, it will take time and money to get this capability back.

I call upon all the loyal citizens engaged in production for defense to give precedence to the needs of the nation to the end that a system of government that makes private enterprise possible may survive.

We must dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories.

India has the capability to create a fairly extensive defence manufacturing capability in many areas, and as a country and as an industry, we have matured in terms of technology and capability to make this happen.

Russia started the war [WWI] with 5,000 guns and reserves of 5 million shells. By the end of 1914, the Czar’s factories were producing 35,000 rounds a month, but the armies at the front were sometimes using 45,000 shells a day.

We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism.

This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

As a general rule, government manufactories ... are to be avoided. Gunmaking is the great exception to this rule. Such establishments are agreeable to the usual practice of Nations and that practice seems founded on sufficient reason. It makes little sense to leave these essential instruments of national defense to the casual speculations of individual adventure. Guns are not objects of ordinary and indispensable private consumption or use.

The building of ships is antediluvian; the building of aircraft is of the 20th century, But there are similarities: both activities have to do with security as well as economy; almost everyone wants some capacity in the field, usually more than can be sustained by ordinary commerce.

Mississippi is home to a significant level of national defense work, such as shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, and critical research.