Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

An America disarmed is an America in subjugation.

Russia has been too weak, and the weak get beaten.

A defenseless country cannot be secure.

The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are still unreliable and where security and advancing of the free democratic order still depend significantly on the possession and use of military might.

If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.

Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.

This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.

Weak countries always exaggerate their power.

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

No great power will allow itself to be strangulated.

The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived of the use of them;

If our economy is strong, that means the military will be strong. If our economy is weak, that weakens our military.

We still give the nation state the monopoly on the legal use of violence in our own defense.

It is not important what the other side says or means. What is important are the military capabilities of the other side.

If the Jewish people want to have an independent state, they must always have the sword in one hand.

Weakness invites war.

Israel has the power to protect itself and its citizens.

Israel is an independent country with a large army, and it has the ability to do what it thinks is right.

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.

Criticising is a weapon of the weak.

If there is no Ukrainian strong army, there will be no Ukraine, and that will be the case when everyone will understand... it's not the war in Ukraine, it's the war in Europe. We are defending our country, our land. We are not attacking anyone, because that is immoral.

Helplessness is a mighty power.

Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.

We don't want to use our strength, but you have to have our strength.