Robert E. Howard Quotes

I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.

We cannot protect everything, all of the time.

The military has to think in terms of worst case scenarios. In a sense, they have to play the pessimist.

Intelligence without counter-intelligence is useless.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.

The Seven Elevens in downtown Houston are better protected than the largest oil refinery in the world.

Even when deterrence is appropriate, it might not work—for example against an enemy who is suicidal or invulnerable to a counterattack.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to "resist aggression" is to destroy the potentialities of the aggressor to continually hit you...When you say, merely, "we are going to continue to fight aggression," that is not what the enemy is fighting for. The enemy is fighting for a very definite purpose-to destroy our forces.

What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.

Security will produce danger.

Security is a process, not a product.

Attack the enemy's strategy.

I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb

You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.

Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.

No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.

Everynbody tries not to reveal his weaknesses, so that he may not be ridiculed. Specially before the enemy. One's weakpoits shold not be revealed. Becaues ohe canstrike on those to ruin us. So one shold remain strong before the enemy.

"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.