Michael Gove Quotes

Security is an underlining interest of Israel.

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.

The purpose of our common defense, after all, is to protect our people so that we can enjoy the blessings of peace, faith, freedom, family, prosperity.

America needs to be secure at home and abroad.

The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one's borders, of one's internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one's nation. That is the very heart of what I believe is sovereignty.

I've been a stalwart for national security.

India has never played politics with national security.

I will protect and defend France's vital interests. I will protect and defend Europe.

We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom.

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

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.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.

An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.

Governments interfere in the affairs of each other, when they conceive their own peace is endangered.

At a period like the present, when momentous changes are occurring and every hour is preparing new and great events in the political world, when a spirit of war is prevalent in almost every nation with whose affairs the interests of the United States have any connection, unsafe and precarious would be our situation were we to neglect the means of maintaining our just rights.

In vain do they worship peace at home, who cannot defend themselves against foreigners.

The organizing premise of any nation's foreign policy is the protection of the homeland.

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

While there are still imperialist aggressors, the state that has no defense power of its own to protect its sovereignty against the internal and external enemies is, in fact, not a fully independent and sovereign state.

Reject treaties that weaken or encroach upon American sovereignty.

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