Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes

ISIS has a caliphate the size of Indiana! Also, US military has been totally gutted. Can't even project power anymore.

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.

The United States has the most capable military in the world. We have the best intelligence agencies.

The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is.

Iran's military hardware is less than a fraction of that of any of the countries in this region.

Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

America has the mightiest military on the planet, and they didn't get there with entertainers.

Having strength, having a strong military, is the ally of peace. Exercising that strength through military action is not always necessary if you have the confidence and clarity of vision and purpose which America demands.

For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not

With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.

To ensure prosperity here at home and peace abroad, we all share the belief we have to maintain the strongest military on the planet.

You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the teeth with weapons, with highly developed instruments of murder and backed by their military interests, have their own dynamic functions.

There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.

The Constitutional Convention debated whether America should even have a standing army. ... They worried that a powerful military could rival civilian government for power in our new country, and of course they worried that having a standing army around would create too much of a temptation to use it.

The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

If we build our military up to Ronald Reagan levels, [Vladimir] Putin's not going to push us anywhere because he can't match us.

I hope we can all agree - military might has been one of the ways to deter people from doing bad things. Now, that can take on any number of different aspects, but on this one, I think that we're getting a little too far ahead of ourselves that Trump is changing policy and making policy in a way that he did not intend.

We have the best military in the world.

Our country doesn't win anymore. We don't win on trade. We don't win on the military. We can't defeat ISIS. We're not taking care of our great people, the veterans. We're not taking care of them.

It's a depleted - we have a very depleted military.

Peace through strength works. We've got the greatest military in the world. I want them to dominate any potential conflict.

With overwhelming military strength now deployed against him and with intense monitoring from space surveillance and the U.N. inspection team on the ground, any belligerent move by Saddam against a neighbor would be suicidal....If Iraq does possess such concealed weapons, as is quite likely, Saddam would use them only in the most extreme circumstances, in the face of an invasion of Iraq, when all hope of avoiding the destruction of his regime is lost.