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2. “Both sides are reinforced in their suspicions by the military maneuvers and defense programs of the other. Even when they are “normal” – that is, composed of measures a country would reasonably take in defense of national interest as it is generally understood – they are interpreted in terms of worst-case scenarios. Each side has a responsibility for taking care lest its unilateral deployments and conduct escalate into an arms race.”
Henry Kissinger
Military, Suspicions, Arms Race, Defense Strategy, National Security
4. “I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security.” Ronald Reagan World Peace, Use Of Force, National Security, Priorities, Diplomacy
7. “Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” George Washington Defense, War Preparation, Preserving Peace, National Security, Common Defense
17. “I do not for a moment suggest that Japan should be unmindful of acquiring modern weapons of self-protection. But this should never be allowed to go beyond her instinct of self-preservation. She must know that the real power is not in the weapons themselves, but in the man who wields those weapons.” Rabindranath Tagore National Security, Responsibility, Ethics, Military, Self-preservation
18. “It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.” Thomas Jefferson War, Peace, Defense, National Security, Civic Duty
21. “The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.” Isaac Asimov Global Unity, National Security, Human Division, Welfare, Borders, Peace
24. “Now let me make it clear that I believe there can only be one defense policy for the United States and that is summed up in the word ‘first.’ I do not mean first, but. I do not mean first, when. I do not mean first, if. I mean first -period.” John F. Kennedy National defense, Military strategy, Defense policy, Security priorities, Global readiness, National security
27. “Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.” Theodore Roosevelt National Security, Values, Community, Ethics, Patriotism
National Security Quotes by Famous Authors
2. “Both sides are reinforced in their suspicions by the military maneuvers and defense programs of the other. Even when they are “normal” – that is, composed of measures a country would reasonably take in defense of national interest as it is generally understood – they are interpreted in terms of worst-case scenarios. Each side has a responsibility for taking care lest its unilateral deployments and conduct escalate into an arms race.”
Henry Kissinger Military, Suspicions, Arms Race, Defense Strategy, National Security
4. “I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security.”
Ronald Reagan World Peace, Use Of Force, National Security, Priorities, Diplomacy
7. “Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
George Washington Defense, War Preparation, Preserving Peace, National Security, Common Defense
17. “I do not for a moment suggest that Japan should be unmindful of acquiring modern weapons of self-protection. But this should never be allowed to go beyond her instinct of self-preservation. She must know that the real power is not in the weapons themselves, but in the man who wields those weapons.”
Rabindranath Tagore National Security, Responsibility, Ethics, Military, Self-preservation
18. “It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.”
Thomas Jefferson War, Peace, Defense, National Security, Civic Duty
21. “The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.”
Isaac Asimov Global Unity, National Security, Human Division, Welfare, Borders, Peace
24. “Now let me make it clear that I believe there can only be one defense policy for the United States and that is summed up in the word ‘first.’ I do not mean first, but. I do not mean first, when. I do not mean first, if. I mean first -period.”
John F. Kennedy National defense, Military strategy, Defense policy, Security priorities, Global readiness, National security
27. “Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.”
Theodore Roosevelt National Security, Values, Community, Ethics, Patriotism
