When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning – we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Before all else, be armed.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That’s why we’re such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, ‚Are people interested?‘ But I think our band has something and they know we don’t just put albums out. We do think about it.