Yitzhak Rabin Quotes

Let no one expect us to disarm unilaterally. We are not a naive people.

We never want to expand our borders... but I can say that our security forces and defence forces possess all the might to protect our borders.

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

We must maintain strong defenses, military and spiritual.

Israel has the power to protect itself and its citizens.

Haven't we put off problems without clarifying Japan's will to protect the lives and assets of its people and territory with its own hands, and merely accepted the benefits of economic prosperity?

Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?

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

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.

The military strength and resources of the State must be reserved for its own defense and protection exclusively …

There is no nation on the earth that wants, for its security, to depend on anybody else.

If we enjoy the benefits of peace, it is only because we have an excellent armed force and a fine socialist economy. Let us exert all efforts so that our further development may be strong and mighty, so that our numerous enemies may think well and long before they decide to attack our country, and so that if they attack, they will quickly regret it.

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

I believe that wholeheartedly - that we have to maintain a strong national defense.

We are not a gigantic state, we do not have nuclear weapons, but our army is sufficiently capable to respond to any threat... Therefore, we will protect our patch of land, our statehood, and our independence.

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence.

Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess.

We need to protect the sovereignty of our nation, and we need to protect the security of our people here in the country.

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.