Jack Nicholson Quotes

We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

What we depend upon in a political leader is the fact that if necessary he will kill for us…. If he is not willing to shed blood we are afraid of him. He must protect us.

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

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

When you think about those of us that live the life that we want to live, we can thank absolutely and completely our men and women in uniform. Because if it were not for them, we wouldn't enjoy the freedoms that we have.

That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

Without a militia, it is in vain to think that any free government will ever have security or stability.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witnesses to human folly.

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

Any state surrounded by enemies will seek strategic depth.

If the English should land on our soil, I shall have them arrested

The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property.

No free government was ever founded, or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state...such area well-regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen...

One percent of our country is fighting to protect the other 99 percent.

… without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.... Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

I don’t have a problem going after people who want to attack this country

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